Word: young
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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INQUIRIES are now being made with a view of finding out how many young ladies desire to enjoy the advantages of higher education in Cambridge. If the number is sufficient to warrant the undertaking, further measures will then be taken...
...unusually clear headed for one of his age, and his sound judgment, unbiassed by those things which usually influence young men, was of great service to himself and to those associated with him. He was a true, steadfast friend, and the memory of his kind, honest heart will not soon be lost...
...arouse or increase that notion. It is a false one, wholly unworthy of the men who advance it. For what was the purpose of the founders of these scholarships? They were wealthy men interested in the cause of education, not in the education of a score or more young men in college, but in education as the power best fitted to benefit society and civilize the world. Their problem was, "How best can we aid that cause?" and their solution of the problem was the depositing of certain sums of money with our University to be used, within certain limits...
Although a low college rank cannot make void or hardly detract from real acquirements, yet there always follows it a sense of injustice which a college should by every possible means seek to avoid, as it burns into the very marrow of the young and sensitive...
...following Harvard instructors have consented to give instruction to young women: Professor Peirce in Mathematics; Professor Peabody in Moral Science; Professor Hedge in German; Professor Bocher in French; Mr. Sheldon in Italian; Professor Goodwin in Greek; Professor Greenough in Sanskrit, Latin, and Comparative Philology; Professor Norton in the Fine Arts; Professor Paine in Music; Professors Child and A. S. Hill in English; Mr. Emerton in History; Mr. H. B. Hill in Chemistry; Professor James in Physiology...