Word: attested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University is pleasantly emphasized by the statistics which are published in this year's catalogue. The freshman class is fully a third as large again as the entrance classes of ten years ago. In the college alone there is a gain of 124 students over last year. These facts attest that the prosperity which has marked Harvard's career in the past is not yet on the wane, and that we may look forward to the time when our classes will equal in numbers those of the large English universities. The number of scholarships has been largely increased by recent...
...poverty." It is poor in order to enable those who come to her doors to receive an education to get it simply by natural ability and steady application, without being dependent upon outside help, as disbursements of almost sixty thousand dollars a year in scholarships will truthfully attest. It is a notorious fact that its corps of professors and instructors is worse paid than at many of the smaller colleges, and yet they refuse the most tempting offers ot go elsewhere, sacrificing themselves for the love of their alma mater. And still the hue and cry continues...
...take exception to many of Dr. Waldstein's innovations, the fair-minded critic cannot fail to discern the traces of true genius in his doctrines. Though a very young man, the lecturer has attained no mean position in the scientific world, as the distinctions lately conferred upon him fully attest. Sever 11 ought to prove too small for those who wish to hear the lecture to-morrow night...
...attest the growing popularity of tobogganing as a sport, it is estimated that there are now about twenty-five slides in and about Boston. Thus far this year, there have been but a few trifling accidents and the weather has proved all that could be desired...