Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seven in number, and two outsiders, are projecting a settlement in that State and expect to obtain a charter for that purpose. The representative of the proposed company, who is looking for a site, is Mr. Charles W. Luck, Harvard, '82, who left Jacksonville a few weeks since and went up the river in search of a spot upon which to locate the company. The colony will consist of nine Harvard men, three of whom are from '82. It has been decided to settle in Gautemala, in order to raise sugar, together with a few of the more profitable drugs...
...Mathematics. In the middle of the year 1835 he came back to the college, and, after serving as a tutor in Greek for a single year, was appointed instructor of the senior class in Mental Philosophy and Political Economy. In August, 1839, resigning his office in the college, he went to Europe and spent a year in study and travel. On his return he took up his residence in Cambridge and for twelve years devoted himself to literature, becoming the proprietor of the North American Review in 1843, which he owned and edited for more than ten years...
...jurisdiction; so started the university. The idea took; and, in three centuries, many of the leading towns in Italy, France, and the German Empire, had their universities, while in England arose Oxford and Cambridge. It was not until 1708 that the plan of having special instructors for each study went into effect. The curriculum was also largely modified. In addition to the classics, mathematics, physics and astronomy were taken up, and the lecture system came into vogue. Such were the universities of the past. What is needed for the future...
...chapel and taking note that no one was near, to remove his rubbers, lay them carefully, with the valise which he was carrying, on the snow, and then yield to the allurements of that long slide; after which he again put on his rubbers, picked up the valise and went on his way rejoicing...
...following story is told : Prof. Park, of Andover, meeting Joseph Cook recently, said to him : "You went to school at Phillips Academy, and now you are more talked about than any of its teachers; you went to Yale, and you are more talked about than any of the Yale faculty; you came to our theological seminary, and you are more talked about than any of us; you lectured at Harvard, and are more talked about than any Professor at Harvard." Cook replied calmly : "So was Guiteau...