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There were established in America, said the lecturer, before the Declaration of Independence, nine colleges - Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, King's or Columbia, the University of Pensylvania, Brown, Dartmouth, and Queen's or Rutgers. The church element entered largely into them all. A wonderful fact was the establishment of Harvard when the wolf was still at its doors. The founders of those colonial colleges were animated with the desire to provide learned ministers, learned laymen and to educate the Indians, and with a love of higher education for its own sake. The methods attending their establishment were typified...
...first nine members of the Philological Society from '84 are, J. Bridge, G. W. Brown, Fenn, Gardner, Gates, E. A. Hibbard, Mumford, Stewart, Walsh...
...says of him: "He was not exacting, and I had an easy time of it. I cannot remember doing anything more than laying out his breakfast and tea table, and occasionally doing an errand. I recall him as a good-looking, rather delicate youth with a pale face and brown, curling hair - always tidy, and well dressed - not given much to athletic exercises, but occasionally sculling, playing cricket and hockey...
...first sale of the Cooke library recently, in which Harvard, Yale, Brown and other colleges had each a choice of $5000 worth of books, we are informed that Harvard obtained only about $150 worth, most of which were not very valuable. The college did not bid very liberally and obtained some books, duplicates of which are already in the library. Some of the volumes in the Cooke library are very rare and valuable. There will be two more sales, one next fall and the last one next spring, when Harvard will bid more highly and hopes to be more successful...
...batting. On the whole the prospects for a close and exciting contest for the champion ship are excellent. The nines appear to be more evenly matched than ever before From the reports that have reached us up to the present time, it would seem that chances favor Princeton and Brown. Amherst does not expect to win the championship but hopes to make a good showing. Yale's chances would seem to be poorer than last year, though it is of course too early to tell with any degree of certainty. The feeling at all the colleges seems to be that...