Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...while his mind is fevered with the excitement of the coming regatta, or his dreams are disturbed by visions of victory is the next day's base-ball game? The Hemenway system, as practiced at Harvard, is being successfully introduced in many of the colleges of the United States. Wellesley, John Hopkins University, and many other institutions are to give it a trial, and we are in hopes good results will follow. The Hemenway system is simple and easy to follow, the only requirements being that each student's physical condition is examined and he is then instructed what method...
Columbia College has one Annex notwithstanding the faculty's vote. A young lady graduate of Wellesley Colis pursing astronomical studies in the observatory...
...meeting of the citizens of Wellesley was held Monday evening for the purpose of taking action to oppose the petition of Wellesley College, now before the Legislature, giving it authority to hold additional real estate and personal property to an amount not exceeding...
Citizens of the town of Wellesley are complaining at the amount of property exempt from taxation held by the college at Wellesley. It is claimed that Wellesley holds more property exempt from taxation than any other college except one in the State in proportion to the valuation of the town in which it is located, and no other college in the State holds as much real estate exempt from taxation as Wellesley College. The college already holds property to the amount of $826,000 exempt, and the citizens opposed to its holding any more land, which would not only...
...appears in the notice of lecturers issued for the next term. Her subject is Political Economy, under the sub-title of 'Labor, the Economic Conditions of its Well-being,' and the course commenced on 21st. inst." Whilst American colleges for the education of women, such as Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley, have honored many women with appointments as professors and instructors, and Wellesley has a woman at its head, English female colleges have hitherto been contented with gentlemen. This is only another example to show how much farther woman has progressed in this country than in England, especially in self-independence...