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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Peabody opened the meeting by explaining the purpose of the conferences. They are designee to bring the teachers and students closer together, and to give an opportunity to talk over the deeper issues of university life. The great trouble here at Harvard is the lack of "team play" among the right minded. There are many who have the best interests of the University at heart, but their efforts are less successful because they lack union. As time goes on, the tendency to deeper thought acquires greater strength. This is shown by the increase, this year, in the attendance...
These meetings are very informal affairs, and are intended to give the students an opportunity of discussing among themselves, and with the college authorities, all matters of interest to the University. The meetings held last year were highly appreciated by the students, and a full house is expected this evening. Only members of the University are admitted...
...Peckster Professorship" by J. P. Quincy is what one might call a psychical novel. The author seems to have caught the popular contagion among the novelists of the day and accordingly weaves a ??? thread through his story which gives it the appearance of a philosophical lecture rather than a novel. With a fair plot for a foundation he builds up a structure of mind imperishable, philosophy, astride counterpart, transcend ??al photography, ??? voyance, and ???notices, still the bewildered reader wonders whether he is still in his mortal body. Such a book may prove ??entertaining for those interested in psychical research, although...
There is much dissatisfaction among Harvard graduates in New York over the action of the athletic committee in refusing to allow the Yale-Harvard game to be played on the polo grounds. A great many had made arrangements to support the team by their presence on Thanksgiving...
...York for the foundation of a new professorship; of $5,000 from an unknown friend for the scholarship fund. Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy were conferred upon Prof. Durell of Dickinson College, on Prof. McNeil of Lake Forest University and on Prof. McMillan, President of Richmond College, Ohio. Among petitions granted was one which shows in a marked degree the difference in liberally of spirit as regards athletics between the Harvard and Princeton trustees. The petition was from the Princeton Eleven asking permission to play Yale in New York on Thanksgiving Day in case the Harvard Faculty refused to allow...