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...erection, and it is proposed to secure the services of the well-known archaelogist, Mr. Charles Waldstein, as director of the school. But to secure these much desired results, it is necessary that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be subscribed to the support of the school. As sixteen different colleges are to contribute, it is to be hoped that the needed funds will be shortly forthcoming. With the school established on a firm basis, with an able corps of instructors, and under such a director as Mr. Waldstein, the advantages for classical study and archaelogical investigation will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/2/1887 | See Source »

...Studies at Athens, Greece, which is to appear under "Topics of the Time" in the "Century" magazine for February. It is desired to collect a permanent fund not less than $100,000, as an endowment for the school. At present the school is supported by the annual subscriptions of sixteen colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The American School at Athens. | 2/2/1887 | See Source »

Syracuse University is only sixteen years old and yet it has four hundred and fifty students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/21/1887 | See Source »

...give personal advice in the matter, it may seem as though the chance of going astray were pretty well limited to the heedless, the capricious, and the wrong-headed, who can hardly be induced by any means to go right. But really there are many well meaning fellows of sixteen to twenty-four who, with the best of purposes and wishes, are not competent to judge of the lines of study best for them, or to form opinions in which they feel confident, and advice directed by the best intentions is not always sound. Under so liberal a system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Criticism of Harvard. | 1/5/1887 | See Source »

...Brattle St., where the break was made. Part of the course lay through marshy ground, whereby the hounds succeeded in soaking their paws. Master of the hounds, A. B. Robinson, '87; Hares, Baldwin and Dean, '88. First hound in, Dana, '88; second, Baldwin, '90. The hares won by sixteen minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hare and Hounds. | 11/20/1886 | See Source »

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