Word: five
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...thirty five endowed professorships of today eight existed then. There were six tutors and an instructor. There are now one hundred and thirty-five instructors and one tutor. Under the wise administration of President Willard and Mr. Storer the College was beginning to depend on itself, but did not have its last subsidy voted it by the legislature until 1814. A few years previous to 1800 the personal estate of Harvard was $182,000. The University property is now valued above...
...forty-six buildings now built or building, there were five in existence in 1800: -- Massachusetts and Hollis, the chief dormitories; Wadsworth house, the residence of the presidents; Harvard Hall, in which was a chapel, library, and dining room; and Holden Chapel. The library in Harvard Hall contained over 12,000 volumes; there are now over 530,000 in Gore Hall. The first Stoughton was in front of what is now the Johnston Gate...
...paper, and, although Harvard was called a University, its catalogue made no distinction between the students of the two departments, academic and medical, which then existed. There were 65 men in the Senior, 61 in the Junior, 50 in the Sophomore, and 57 in the Freshman class. Twenty-five men were from Boston. St. John, N. B., Virginia, and South Carolina were the most distant localities represented...
...games with Yale will probably be held during the first week in May and the intercollegiate games two weeks later. Mr. Lathrop, in speaking of Harvard's past success in track athletics, said that in the last fifteen years Harvard has won seven intercollegiate championships, has beaten Yale in five dual meets out of eight, and has beaten Pennsylvania in two dual meets. He announced that as there is still a vacant space on the dual cap permanently won by Harvard last year the winning team in this spring's games will be inscribed on that cup as well...
...following one hundred and five men handed in their names as candidates...