Word: whose
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SURELY Harvard would nowadays lift up its aristocratic hands in holy horror at the idea of such a thing as a lottery. It may, however, be interesting to those whose eyes gloat fondly on the announcement of bequests and donations to their Alma Mater, to see what measures were taken to raise money at a time when the College finances were not by any means in their present prosperous condition...
...tickets were sold at the moderate sum of five dollars each, and "quarter-tickets" were provided for the benefit of those whose interest in literature was not of an alarmingly ardent nature...
SOME of the students boarding at Memorial Hall may enjoy the statement in the President's Report, that "the young men who daily use this superb building are for the most part those whose previous lives have been least enriched by familiarity with artificial objects of dignity and beauty, and whose enjoyments are always restricted by an imperative economy...
Professor Bowen, who has written just one hundred articles, stands second on the list, and he is followed by Dr. Peabody, whose contributions amount to seventy-seven. Those who have contributed more than fifty articles are Presidents Felton and Sparks, A. H. Everett, and W. B. O. Peabody. Caleb Cushing, William Tudor, and J. G. Palfrey stand among the thirties; and Professors Norton and Lowell, and W. H. Prescott, among the twenties. Of the members of the present Faculty, H. W. Torrey has seven; John Fiske and Asa Gray, six each; A. S. Hill and C. F. Dunbar five each...
DURING the past two years the changes at Gore Hall have caused necessarily so much noise and confusion as to demand great patience and forbearance on the part of all who used the Library. Those students whose electives obliged them to study there worked under special disadvantages, and justly felt that they were deprived of many of the benefits a library should give. Complaint, however, was useless, because, until the extension was completed, relief was impossible...