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...financial policy of the corporation is stated in the general purpose to spend every year all their income. They believe that well instructed young men are the best investment or accumulation which the university can make from year to year for the benefit of future generations. As fast as new resources are placed in their hands, whether from increase in the amount of tuition fees, or from the income of new endowments, the corporation incur new permanent charges...
...greatness of Cambridge, save as a university town, is fast passing away, if indeed its fame has ever been separable from of Harvard. As a city of revolutionary memories Cambridge of course if famous. As for a long time the home of two of the greatest American poets it is everywhere known. But its fame in this last respect certainly, has been principally due to the college, for it was as professors at Harvard that much of the lives of both Mr. Lowell and the late Prof. Long fellow were passed...
...each case. At that time the college numbered so few that a change of location was not quite as difficult as it would be today with our hundreds of students and more instructors than the students of 1775. The first exodus was in May 1775. The provincial army was fast gathering in Cambridge to take part in the siege of Boston. Quarters were needed for the troops. In this emergency, the Massachusetts committee of safety ordered the students to be removed, and the three buildings, Massachusetts, Old Harvard and Old Stoughton were turned into barracks. No college work was done...
...question of allowing students the option of substituting modern languages for Greek is fast approaching a decision at Harvard. The battle appears to be between the faculty and the overseers, and in the anti-Greek party are President Eliot, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Supt. Seams of the Boston public schools, and, of course, Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Professor Agassiz favors the reform party.-[Graphic...
...each man in Harvard is his own master, and if he lives fast it is of his own choosing; for every man can find good friends of his own stamp in the multitude of students attending the university...