Word: wente
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Boston Public Library and has accepted the appointment. He will assume the duties of his position on Monday next. Mr. Putnam is a son of the well known publisher of that name. After graduating from Harvard he spent a year in the Columbia Law School, from which he went to Minneapolis, where he was admitted to the Minnesota bar. He was soon drawn into library work, however, and became librarian of the Minneapolis Athenaeum, then containing about ten thousand volumes, which it was intended to incorporate in a larger and freer city library...
GLEE, BANJO AND MANDOLIN CLUBS. - All men who went on the trip with the musical clubs meet at 40 Hilton at 6.30 tonight. Important...
Judge Hoar was born in Concord, Mass., on Feb. 4, 1816. At the age of fifteen he entered Harvard, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1835. From the college he went to the Law School, where four years later he took the degree of LL. B. In 1840 he was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts and began the active practice of law. He rose rapidly in his profession and in 1859 was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. The degree of LL.D. was afterwards twice awarded him, - first by Williams in 1861 and again...
Yesterday the chest weight exercise was omitted in all the sections of the Mott Haven team and the men merely went through the dumb-bell drill. This was in order to have time to run the sprinters a trial 220 yards. The men did not race, but each ran separately on time. The distance men were given a rest after their hard work of Monday and merely jogged a few laps slowly...
Professor Charles E. Thwing has an article in the current number of the Forum on the cost of collegiate education. He shows the increase of expenses at Harvard. From 1825-30 the average annual expenses were $176.00, of which half went for tuition and half for board and room; from 1831-40 the average was $188.10; from 1840-48, $194.00; 1849-60, $227~($138.00 went for board and room); in the sixties it jumped from $263.00 to $437.00, two-thirds of which went for board and room; in 1881-82 the average expense to an economical student ranged from...