Word: may
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...begin training immediately after Christmas, and that it was particularly necessary to commence hard work right away because on February 15th, the Boston Athletic association would hold a handicap indoor meeting open to all amateurs, which it is hoped a large number of Harvard men will enter. Moreover, it may happen that the New York Athletic union may transfer its amateur indoor championship of America to Boston, on account of the better accommodations here. There is every reason why Harvard should work especially hard to win the cup this year. The old cup was won eight out of fourteen times...
...Harvard chemical laboratories are intended only for instruction in theoretical chemistry; it has never before been attempted here to teach the industrial department of the science, so that this new course may be said to open a new field. The popular desire will doubtless force the college continually to enlarge upon this department...
HARVARD GLEE CLUB.- Tickets for the Cambridge concert will be on sale at Thurston's, Thursday, December 12, at 10 a. m. Members of the Pierian, and Glee and Banjo clubs may get their tickets between 8 and 10 o'clock a. m. Thursday...
...look upon it as a profession. The great majority of persons who teach, however, never intend to treat teaching as a profession. I say, therefore, that the institutions of higher education have some good reasons for not attempting to teach the philosophy of education. I thing, too, we may offer another apology for not having attempted to teach the history of higher education. It is the most terrible history in the world, and it is the most depressing thing for any human being, because there is no good history of teaching and no history of good teaching. There...
...women exceed two hundred thousand hours of hard work in a life-time while the average time of life spent by our most laborious literary men has not exceeded thirty thousand hours or about one sixth that of the laboring man with only as much brain as may guide his movements. Inasmuch, therefore, as intellectual labor his been found more wearying than that required of the ordinary man, the conclusion has been drawn that not more than nine months of the year should be devoted to school work, and it seems to be the tendency everywhere to increase rather than...