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The retirement of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes from the professorship in the Harvard Medical School, which he has held for thirty-five years, is an interesting event in the career of a distinguished and honored man. During the generation which has placed him among the foremost of our men of...
The influence of English usage was shown in the original character of the corporation at Harvard. As the professors were the ruling body in the Continental schools, and the masters in the English colleges, the corporation of Harvard was composed of two classes: Resident or teaching fellows, and nonresident or...
The establishment of the president and teaching fellows as a separate body for government and discipline did not take place until 1725, nearly a hundred years after the founding of the college, and as thus constituted was termed the 'immediate government.' Ordinary discipline had previously been in the hands of...
The Nation thinks that most of the students at Oxford and Cambridge who come from the United States and British Colonies are attracted thither "chiefly by the charm of college life." "Whatever charges may be brought against their teaching," it says, "the social and intellectual life of the students is...
Returns thus far from the class of '82 show that the following choice of occupation has been made: Business, 54; law, 45; medicine, 20; teaching, 11; ministry, 6; chemistry, 6, and journalism, 5.