Word: supplemented
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...astronomical expedition which the authorities at Harvard University have so long contemplated is now fairly started on its journey South. Primarily, the object of the expedition is to make a complete survey of the southern heavens to supplement the survey of the northem heavens which has been going on the last six years at Cambridge. As three-fourths of the survey has been accomplished here at Cambridge it will not be necessary for the expedition to remain in the South more than two years to finish it entirely...
...Athletic Supplement" of the June Monthly, Mr. W. K. Richardson has an interesting article on "English Athletics." Mr. Moorfield Storey and Mr. G. W. Green, '76, also have candid words to say in regard to the proper place of athletics at college. The position of the overseers is sharply attacked by the latter writer...
...number is swelled beyond its usual volume by an "Athletic Supplement" containing three articles written by men whose names are well known, and bearing on the absorbing athletic question at Harvard. The different sides of the 3-4 question are well presented, and the whole evinces a commendable spirit of enterprise on the part of the editors...
...Those who have been fitted at the Harvard preparatory schools of the Eastern States generally have the advantage from the start. Scholarships being regarded as prizes for high marks are often eagerly sought after whether needed or not. Many a student with sufficient assistance from home is glad to supplement his funds and thus live in luxury with the added honor of having his name printed among the holders of scholarships. During my own course I never ventured to apply for a scholarship. I knew that it would be useless. My marks were not high enough. I believe, however, that...
...appointments represented the revival of the old English connection between law, history and classics. As the Jus Naturalis, then taught in European universities, was but the continuity of Roman ideas of philosophical jurisprudence, so history was regarded. primarily, as the history of Greece and Rome, and as a mere supplement to classical culture...