Word: western
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...Abbott was graduated from New York University in 1853, and has received the degree of D.D. from that institution and from Harvard, and the degree of LL.D. from Western Reserve University. He was ordained a minister in 1860, and has held pastorates at Terre Haute, Indiana, New England Church, New York, and Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. For three years after the Civil War he was secretary of the American Union Commission for the aid of freemen, and in 1869 he resigned his pastorate at New York to devote himself to literature. He edited the "Literary Record," of Harper's Magazine...
...hard journey; one which would tax any man's strength; but one which he is undertaking with his characteristic boldness for the University's sake. He is carrying into the West the true academic spirit of Harvard, appealing to our graduates and to the scholars of the western states, and through them spreading the reputation of the great educational system, of which he was chief founder. It is partly through the efforts of the alumni that a larger western representation may be secured; and by a visit from the President the Harvard spirit, which has spread throughout the country, will...
Chicago won the Western championship last Thursday by defeating Wisconsin in a close game by the score of 18 to 16, while Pennsylvania gained the Eastern title by defeating Georgetown, the champion team of the South, last Saturday...
...soliciting contributions from the undergraduates on Harvard's relations with the West, and on the advantages and disadvantages that a western man finds here, the CRIMSON is aiming at some practical solution of the recognized difficulty--or, as has been suggested, recognized misunderstanding -- against which the western man must contend. Our contributor this morning offers some instructive suggestions, which may well be added to those already advanced by and through the CRIMSON. No university can hope to appeal purely by academic reputation to the preparatory schools that are ignorant of the real conditions of its undergraduate life. That, of course...
These are a few of the phases of a course at Harvard that are unknown to western schoolboys, who in their ignorance have become prejudiced; and this very prejudice has been strengthened by the testimony of their few Harvard friends, who, laboring under the same ignorance, were unable to comprehend in time the complexity of the life they found in Cambridge. For the relieving of such a condition Faculty and undergraduates are alike responsible...