Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chiefly among the students of the college proper, one-fifth of whom now come from that part of the country. The number of graduates of the university who settle in the Middle and Western States has been rapidly increasing of late, many of them soon filling places of trust and influence. They exert themselves to improve the preparatory schools in their vicinity, or to found new ones; and by example and precept they suggest to young men that it is expedient to get thorough training for professional or active life. Since about 300 young men are now graduated yearly...
...copies of a book for the use of a large section is a most disagreeable feature in several courses, but any unfairness or carelessness merely adds to this, without mitigating it in the slightest. So long, then, as we are compelled to put up with it, we trust that every man will do his share towards making the burdens as light as possible...
...hours, or other than very sparingly in hours, is, when examinations are at hand, a most annoying disturbance to those at work. Unfortunately there is no law by which it is prohibited then, and the college is consequently thrown entirely on the mercy of those possessing such instruments. We trust that all those who play will see the necessity of both care and forbearance in their practicing, since everyone is then engaged in perhaps the hardest work of the year, and anything which renders study more arduous must be most unjust to those at work...
...sheer folly to wait for disaster to come and then trust to luck to extricate ourselves from the danger, when by a little exertion on our part we can make ourselves comparatively secure. Afire once started in any of the older buildings would increase with frightful rapidity, and it would be only by the most prompt and well-directed effort that loss of life could be averted. It seems as if the Athletic Association might take the initiative, and organize companies for practice with the apparatus, for some one must be first in a movement like this, and an organization...
...will of George Oakes Clark, of Milton, his estate valued at $300,000 is left in trust for the benefit of his family, and after their decease and that of all his relatives, the remaining portion of the estate is bequeathed to Harvard college...