Word: greatness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THROUGH the generosity of the late James Arnold of New Bedford, the University will be enabled to establish a great arboretum on the Bussey-farm property, West Roxbury, and to create with it a chair of arboriculture, the first in the United States...
...half-mile run, the next on the programme, created a great deal of amusement. Simmons cantered round the track, sometimes stopping to walk, at others shaking hands with persons outside, while Buell, '82, and Norman, '82, kept up a slow dog-trot. Ten yards from the finish, Norman gained on his competitor, and got second prize, in 3 m. 24 s. Simmons's time...
April 18. - Last chance to draw in the great collegiate lottery presided over by the Bursar. Tickets from $25 to $300. Prize in every package...
...these men will leave some older organization, which needs their support, to start a new one, which may fall to pieces after a short and precarious existence, we think they should consider well before making the attempt. It is better to have a few well-supported institutions than a great many weak and in debt; and, judging from reports, we already have more societies and clubs than men can find time to attend to. If we go on, every Harvard man will soon be an officer of some college organization...
...with the instructor, and three outside - will be required, and the method of teaching is the same as that used by Professor Sauveur in teaching French. The instructor writes a character upon the blackboard, and the student pronounces it after him until it is firmly fixed. Great delicacy of ear and eye is required, and much mechanical drudgery must be endured. Patience is the first requisite. No interpreter is needed until some advance has been made, and even then Sir Thomas Wade's Progressive Course in Colloquial and Documentary Chinese will go far towards supplying his place. A knowledge...