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...whose memory the lectures bearing his name were founded, was a prominent and popular member of the class of 1885. In 1888 he returned to Cambridge and studied for two years in the Episcopal Theological School, but on account of his health was forced to leave the school and abandon his ambition to be ordained as a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1898 his wife, mindful of his unfinished aim, established the William Belden Noble Lectures...
...Oxford only the Dons, or college officers, are permitted to walk on the grass. At Harvard the "Dons" appear to be the only persons to pursue the paths. Everyone else, led on by that delightful abandon which accompanies the approach of the merry Maytime, not only ambles on the grassy edges of the lawn, but, on the way to Memorial Hall, ventures occasionally into pastures new. The result in the latter case is a fairly obvious suggestion that the Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings establish a new and convenient path. This suggestion will, doubtless, be acted upon...
...Professor Palmer's students today are aware that his first appointment here, from 1870 to 1872, was in Greek. During this time he did much to arouse enthusiasm for ancient literature by giving public readings, nor did he, when called to his chosen subject, abandon his interests in the classics or fail to make notable contributions to the difficult art of interpreting ancient culture to our day. His translation of Homer's "Odyssey" (1891) and that of "Antigone" of Sophocles (1899) are at once masterpieces of English and faithful reproductions, if over such are pos- sible, of the spirit...
...immensely to our practical efficiency as a people in working for peace; and the surest way to destroy all power on our part to work for peace, and to render our conduct in seeking peace a subject of derision and contempt among the nations of mankind, would be to abandon the work of upbuilding the United States Navy and to refrain from fortifying the Panama Canal. The conduct of the misguided men who advocate such policies stands in the most striking contrast to work like that of Elihu Root at The Hague last summer, work which represented in the highest...
...undergraduates to erect a swimming tank for the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. coming at the same time as the intercollegiate swimming meet, recalls us rather painfully to a realization of our own inadequate swimming facilities. Because of the lack of those facilities, Harvard has been forced to abandon swimming temporarily, and a great many undergraduates have been unable to avail themselves of what is an accessible and valuable form of exercise in most colleges. It seems to me that in this case especially, charity should begin at home. Swimming is one of the few delightful and healthful sports which...