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Figures recently brought out show conclusively the commendable growth in the University English Department in the last few years. As it is now equipped, this department can hardly be believed to have grown from what it was ten years ago. In every point, both optional and required courses,, English now receives double the attention it did then. A noticeable growth in many departments is indicative of a new feeling. The musical department is one of these, which under professors Parker and Fisher has made great progress. Its last step is the acquisition of an unused church of very fine acoustic...
Several recitation rooms will also be added. This will also be a valuable acquisition to the department of music, which has grown so much in the last year as to need new quarters. The church is a landmark in the city, having been built...
Scattered along the shore are small hills, covered with a stunted growth of trees, or left entirely bare; behind these, marshes have grown through which the sea sends tide streams. These marshes, in the days of the early settlers, were the hay fields, and even now cattle feed upon them. Upon a marsh the new part of Boston has been built and in other adjacent places attempts are being made to use this marshy land...
...Workingmen of Cambridgeport and vicinity came to the lectures and entered the classes, paying a membership fee in the union of twenty-five cents a month. A spirit of manly, brotherly helpfulness pervaded both the student teachers from the College and their workingmen pupils. From this small beginning has grown year by year what is now almost an evening university, with nearly a hundred classes in elementary studies and in high school and college branches. These classes and the lectures were attended last year by more than six hundred wage earners, men of many nationalities and occupations. The teachers were...
...Here in the forest-grown uncultivated lands, English men exiled from home, In the sixteen hundred and thirty-sixth year after Christ's birth, In the sixth year after bringing their colony hither, Thinking that before all else they ought to cultivate wisdom, Founded by act of the people a school, And dedicated to Christ and the church this their foundation, Which being increased by the bounty of John Harvard and by lovers of learning here and abroad continually helped and finally entrusted to the loyal care of its children, From a small beginning brought to a mightier growth...