Word: western
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...school. The class of students, moreover, who have availed themselves of the advantages of the school has been exceedingly varied. It has been made up partly, as we have said, of those who, as teachers, are trying to learn better methods of instruction; partly of a representation from western colleges-a representation that is constantly growing; and partly of diligent students who are regular students of the college. For these latter it would be especially gratifying if the Harvard faculty would count this work at the Summer Schools for the degree. That such a provision in the regulations will...
...cemetery at Charlestown, I found the inscriptions on the monument almost. completely worn away by the weather. The one on the eastern side was entirely illegible and it was only with the help of favoring shadows that, after many tribulations, I deciphered the words on the western side. The monument was erected by the graduates of 1828 in honor of the founder of their beloved University. Will not the undergraduates of 1891 see to it that the inscriptions are kept in good condition? The expense would be comparatively trifling...
...single, first making sure that he could manage it, and that he knew how to swim. The crew rowed down to the basin, and Shaw, after rowing about for some time in front of the boat house, followed them. It was just below the Western Avenue bridge that the accident happened. Whether the shell struck on a sunken pile and capsized, dragging Shaw under by the toe straps, or whether Shaw, finding the boat tipping, jumped, and owing to his heated condition was seized with the cramp, it is hardly possible to say. The latter conjecture is perhaps more probable...
Harvard sets an example which the promoters of education in the West hold up to their people and legislatures to follow. The steady growth of the college, the gratuitous services of her governing boards, the generous financial support of the state are all held up as a standard which western universities should try to reach. The countless historic and literary associations centred about Harvard and Cambridge have a great fascination for the westerner brought up in places no older than a lifetime...
...sent to Harvard a large delegation which has helped to make instruction take a broader course. The department of the University which receives the greater part of this delegation is not the college but the graduate and professional schools. harvard cannot pretend to compete long with the growing western universities in the matter of rudimentary college education. But in the higher departments Harvard has a great start on the new western universities, and as eastern brains and enterprise are as great as western, there is no reason why Harvard should not keep her lead and continue to attract advanced students...