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...classes, mathematics, and one modern language in the freshman year, and the same in the sophomore year, with the addition of English. The elective system applies to eight hours a week out of fifteen, junior year, and twelve hours out of fifteen, senior year, in class-room exercises, the rest being prescribed, and consisting mainly of physical science and philosophy. The elective courses from which choice may be made are ninety-two in number, arranged in seven departments - Mental and Moral Science, Political Science and Law, History, Modern Languages, Ancient Languages and Linguistics, Natural and Physical Science and Mathematics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 1/5/1887 | See Source »

...Walker, and remembering the Senator Stanford offers several millions for the establishment of the university, we may well feel justified in phrophesying a brilliant future for the university that is to be. Sad as it may be to think that the future classes of '97, '98, and the rest, may not count in their number the smiling member from San Francisco and the Pacific Slope, who now seems an indispensable part of Harvard, we must school ourselves to the idea of separation. However, notwithstanding this serious drawback, Stanford University has our best wishes. It is sincerely to be hoped that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/4/1887 | See Source »

...elementary and advanced subjects. The elementary studies are not supposed to be equivalent in regard to one another, and they will not all have the same weight in the examinations. Greek, Latin and Mathematics will continue to have, as they now have, much greater weight than any of the rest. The examinations will be marked according to the new college standard of marks. Another new thing is the provision that allows a student to take his preliminaries and final during the same year. Although this new system of entrance examinations goes into force this year, any one desiring to enter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Harvard Catalogue. | 12/21/1886 | See Source »

...they win by laying a scent unsatisfactorily to three-quarters of the hounds. Whether it is because of this rule or not, the hares have since laid much better scent. In fact the scent was so good that one man complained that he never had a chance to rest. The experiment of having an extra hunt on Friday was successfully tried. No prizes were offered to the winner in this hunt, and it was intended to be a pleasant afternoon's run across country. It is to be hoped that next fall the H. A. A. will make extra hunts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hare and Hounds. | 12/13/1886 | See Source »

Clause 9: "I give, bequeath and devise all the rest, residue and remainder of my estates, real, personal and mixed to the president and fellows of Harvard College, to have and to hold the same to them and their successors and assigns forever, absolutely and in fee, but in trust, nevertheless, to and for the uses and purposes herein set fourth, and declared of and concerning the same viz: The said president and fellows are to take and receive said property and estates, and to hold, manage, and invest the same according to their best judgement and discretion, taking care...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Greenleaf's Bequest Now One Million. | 12/11/1886 | See Source »