Word: written
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...story of how the young man happened to come to Harvard is one of exceptional interest to Harvard men. It began in a letter written in 1847 by Edward Everett, then President of the University, to George Bancroft who was at his post as minister to Great Britain, a post which President Everett himself had previously filled. In that letter President Everett asked Mr. Bancroft to deliver some books--including a set of Quincy's "History of Harvard"--to Rev. John Harvard of Plymouth, England, whom President Everett spoke of as "a Wesleyan clergyman whose ancestor at the beginning...
Every student in Harvard College must hand in, without fail, his list of studies written in ink on the card provided for the purpose, on Friday, between the hours of 9 A. M. and 6 P. M., at the places named below. All Freshmen must obtain the signatures of their Advisers on their lists of studies...
...five years from 1873, Dr. Dwight was editor of the Boston Medical Journal and in 1884 he gave a course of lectures at the Lowell Institute on "Mechanism of the Bone and Muscle." He had written much on medical subjects, and was the author of "Anatomy of the Head; the Intracranial Circulation," also numerous papers on human and vertebrate anatomy, which appeared in medical and scientific journals. He was given an LL.D. by Georgetown University...
...year 1911-12 a friend of the University offers a prize of fifty dollars, to be awarded to that undergraduate in Harvard or Radcliffe who shall show, in a special written examination, the best acquaintance with the contents of the Old Testament. This examination will take place just before the beginning of the final examination period in 1912." This prize is open only to undergraduates...
...criticism of the players, little can be written that does not savor of either praise or blame. Duncan and Bennett managed to fan 23-2 of all the batters who faced them while Gregg was treated to singles by de Windt and Blackall, doubles by Blackall and de Windt, a triple by lil' Arthur Sweetser, and one smoking, sizzling, home run by Storey. Grinnell alone of the we-were-a-jokes could look a baseball in the face again without blushing...