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...Cambridge School and wish to take advantage of the opportunities for cultivation in Boston and Cambridge. The Hall was planned and built for this purpose. The warming and ventilation have received special attention. The number that can be accommodated is small. Applicants should be over fourteen years of age. Apply...
...real cause for the Spanish Armada was the bitter hatred that existed between the two great religious sects, the Protestants and Catholics. The age, too, was one in which revolutions and great fanatic movements were not only frequent but popular. But the preparations received their final stimulus from the execution of Mary, Queen of Scotts. Before her death she had bequeathed her right to the English crown to Philip II., now king of Spain. The assistance which the revolted Netherlands had received from the English still further roused the Spaniards against them...
...Cambridge School and wish to take advantage of the opportunities for cultivation in Boston and Cambridge. The Hall was planned and built for this purpose. The warming and ventilation have received special attention. The number that can be accommodated is small. Applicants should be over fourteen years of age...
...chief gain in shortening the course would appear to lie in lowering the age of graduates from the professional schools. But could not this be accomplished in other ways? The true fault lies, not in our academic department, but in the preparatory and lower schools. There is no reason why the American schools, should not, like the European schools, educate their pupils in sixteen or seventeen years instead of nineteen. It seems quite possible that Harvard might gain a year at least by exerting her influence upon the larger preparatory schools, some of which already offer a shorter course than...
...oldest living graduate in the United States is Amos F. Parker, of Fitzwilliam, N. H. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1813 and is nearly 98 years of age...