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...late Dr. Martyn Paine has bequeathed the bulk of his property to Harvard College. It is not to be used until the income shall amount to $8,000. It is to be employed as follows: $4,800 will be divided among sixteen scholarships, four in each class, to be known as Robert Troup Paine Scholarships. $1,500 to be devoted to prizes for essays on various subjects, and the remainder ($1,700) is to go to the Library, - $800 to be spent in buying books and $900 to be set aside as an accumulating fund...
...want of hearers; but it is chiefly noticeable that the merely comical, rather than the serious parts, were most enjoyed by those who flocked to hear Mr. Bocher, - a fact that sheds no imperishable lustre on the intellectual superiority of our students; but when students enter college at sixteen or seventeen, perhaps nothing better can rightly be expected...
...SIXTEEN new suites in Little...
...find: '72, thirteen honors, partly first-class, partly second-class; '73, thirteen honors, first and second class; '74, twelve honors, three highest in Classics, two in Philosophy; '75, twelve honors, four highest in Classics, one in Philosophy; '76, twelve honors, one highest in Philosophy, one in Physics; '77, sixteen honors, three highest in Mathematics, one in Philosophy. It will be seen that in these last six years no student had taken any honors in Mathematics, until Seventy-seven took three highest in that subject, which is acknowledged the most difficult of all. But the chief glory of Seventy-seven...
...quite a jolly time, because, you see, I've got a lot of cousins who live there, and I was the only male approaching their age for ten miles. Yes, I had a beautiful time. I used to talk philosophy to nineteen, and nonsense to twelve, and romance to sixteen; you see they acted as foils to each other, and when I was a little tired of one I would fall back on another, and then there were always my uncle and aunt as a last resource. I did n't get to them often, though. Well, it was about...