Word: present
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshmen have subscribed only $313 to the University Crew, up to the present time...
...advantages of this gift ourselves, we are heartily glad to be able to look forward to a day in the future when Harvard College will not have to be penurious in its expenditures. If the College cannot have the advantage of any such legacy as this at present, it can at least make the most of the sources of income which it already possesses. Any one with the least capacity for business can see, by looking over the list of vacant rooms in college buildings, that this is not done now. The College loses over $7,000 this year...
...game, Exeter, one goal and three touch-downs, '83, nothing. The Freshmen played an exceedingly poor game throughout, Lee's fine rushes being the only redeeming features of their playing. We hope they will take this game as a warning, and practise daily, especially in passing, as in their present form they can never hope to defeat Yale, '83, this fall...
...with the Cantonese, who speak a language so different from the Mandarin that our professor himself cannot understand them. Mandarin is, however, valuable for those who wish to enter the Chinese consular service of American and European governments, or the customs service of China itself. When any such students present themselves instruction will begin at the professor's house. Five hours' work a day - two with the instructor, and three outside - will be required, and the method of teaching is the same as that used by Professor Sauveur in teaching French. The instructor writes a character upon the blackboard...
What is past, and what is present...