Word: withing
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In 1898, Edward Austin, a Boston merchant, bequeathed to Harvard University $500,000, the income of which was to be used for "needy, meritorious students and teachers, to assist them in the payment of their studies." In the settlement of this estate, Harvard received $425,000. In fulfillment of the...
Student societies were just then becoming very popular. The most prosperous were the Institute of 1770, the Phi Beta Kappa, and the Speaking Club which were literary societies, the Adelphi which was a religious union, and the Percellian and Hasty Pudding Clubs. There was not much intercourse between classes, although...
As Boston could be reached only by a long walk, students rarely attended social parties, and then did not mingle with Cambridge people. The principle intellectual interest was the study of Shakespeare, and one of the strongest influences in College life was school teaching. Systematic exercise of any kind was...
About this time (1803) the authorities raised the standard of admission, and required examinations in Dalzel's "Collectanea Graeca Minora," the Greek Testament, Virgil, Sallust and Cicero, with a knowledge of Greek and Latin grammars. The candidates had to be well versed in geography and arithmetic.
The following is a part of the official report of illness in the University during the year 1898-99. Compared with the previous year, there is a larger grand total, which is due to the increased miscellaneous diseases, especially during the months of December and January. There is, on the...