Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...increased fees would bar out students of small means, could not the difficulty be met by creating a number of University scholarships of fifty dollars each, or to put it in another way, the faculty could be authorized to remit fifty dollars of the fee for tuition to a certain number of students...
...Atkins has made a generous offer of certain very rich land on his estate for the prosecution of experiments in the cultivation of tropical plants, and it is probable that the directors of the Botanic Garden will avail themselves of it. There is now so much interest felt in the production of tropical foods, fruits and fibres, that a branch garden, under the direction of the Harvard Botanic Garden, might prove attractive and very useful. The whole subject is now receiving careful consideration and the most favored plan contemplates the establishment, in southern Cuba, of an experiment station which could...
Edwin F. Atkins, Esq., of Boston, has established a new fellowship of $1500 for the present year, to further the study of certain unfamiliar plants that may become useful in commerce. The holder of the fellowship, E.M. Wilcox, Ph.D. '99, is now engaged in research work in the East Indies. Of the $1500 given by Mr. Atkins, $500 will be used for the publication of the results of this investigation...
...Ragnar Brovik, seemed much more at home than in "Ties," and played his part with greater ease and more convincingness. But the theories of the so-called "natural" school of acting have so far influenced the cast, with the possible exception of Miss Kahn, that there was a certain stiffness, unpleasant in the extreme...
...Endicott Peabody spoke of Phillips Brooks as a friend. His simplicity invited people, who might have felt a certain reticence in going to other great men, to seek him as a friend. Bishop Brooks was not interested in talking about himself, but he poured out his whole soul in his preaching. His greatness was in his faith in God and his faith in Heaven. His personality was such an inspiration that one seemed filled with a new life after talking with him. He loved young men and boys, he loved Harvard, and loved to talk of any plan for Harvard...