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...proud as of a good family, a handsome face, a strong body, a ready wit,-of all those things, indeed, for which we are not responsible; but no one is ever proud of trying hard. We may decree as much as we like that trying hard is the sum total of virtue, yet no one will ever want a prize for faithful endeavor. To be able to do easily what other people do with difficulty, or what they cannot do at all, that is what we are proud of and what we admire...
...FRIDAY.Harvard Total Abstinence League. Sever 11, 7.30 P. M. Addresses by Professor F. G. Peabody, and Hon. L. Edwin Dndley, Secretary of the National Law and Order League...
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...incomes of Oxford fellowships' very from L125, the average being about L100. The total annual income of the university is about L250,000; more than any other university in the world receives, and of this large sum more than one-third is expended in fellowships every year. Cambridge, being a smaller university, cannot make so large an appropriation, but is very generous...
...Virginia" has recently appeared, from which we learn, with some astonishment, that of the gifts it has received since its establishment in 1819, amounting to $719,000, $653,000 have been contributed since the war-a fact of which the moral does not need to be pointed out. This total of $719,000 is exclusive of the gifts constituting part of the fixed endowment of the University, yielding a revenue which amounts to $282,600, all of which, except $2,600, has been also given since the war. Virginia has always been liberal to its University-"the glory...