Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Nothing shows more clearly the advance of rational ideas of education with us than the rapidly increasing use which is made of the gymnasium by the college at large. True education requires a sound body as its first requisite and a thorough awakening to this fact is a circumstance most encouraging for the success of all of Harvard's experiments in educational matters. In the few days since college opened, there have been nearly three hundred applications for physical examinations. Forty applications have been made for lockers above the number now in the gymnasium. As there are over nine hundred...
...real discoveries. Political matters of importance that heretofore have escaped the notice of historians or biographers are by no means few, we have good reason to believe. Last year discoveries were made by students in the course, and with the growth of a better knowledge of the use of historical sources which comes with time, we may confidently expect that the work this year will reveal some heretofore sealed pages of American history...
...stenographer is the last addition to the working force in U. 5. A typewriter has also been procured and is in use...
Boston Museum. - "Harbor Lights." Harbor Lights, though why it should be so called is not made very plain to the audience, is a sensational play with a well constructed plot, and although some of the characters and situations are worn a little threadbare by constant use, nevertheless are so skillfully managed as to make it seem almost like a new play. The play is well cast and the company appear to better advantage than in the many plays which they have presented...
...that the efforts of Professor Taussig to have University 14 fitted up as a library and reading-room for students in political economy have been successful. The impossibility of working in the college library in the evening seems to be an evil that can not be eradicated, so the use of the room in University becomes an advantage all the more valuable. The only thing to be regretted is that the other departments have not been so fortunate as that of political economy...