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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Scrambles among the Alps" by Edward Whymper...
...college merely to engage in athletic contests. Last year there was a similar case at Harvard. So convinced was this Committee of the evils of the practice, that this year all candidates for the Eleven about whom any doubt was felt were sharply inquired about. The cases of five among thirty-one candidates were thus specially investigated. All of these five gentle men were and are "bona fide students on the rolls" of the University; against four of them efficient protest was lodged by this Committee or some other authority of the University; so that only one of them played...
...EARLE.The Y. M. C. A. wishes to receive contributions of cast off clothing, shoes, rubbers, books, and c., fer use in missionary work among colored people at Talledga, Alabama, in charge of Frederick Reed, (Harvard '82). All who can contribute anything please send postal to J. B. Lewis, 67 C. H., or A. B. Seymour, 12 Farwell place. A prompt response will enable us to make one shipment before Christmas...
...addressing themselves only to the cold understanding of their readers, the writers of the Romantic school appealed to the imagination, the faith, and the superstition of the people. Instead of a onesided worship of Latin and Greek literature they proclaimed the universality of literature in all ages and among all nations. The great works of Schiller and Goethe, white lifting German literature to a higher plane, had tended to remove it further and further away from the understanding of the masses. The Romantic School endeavored to restore literature to the place it held in the Middle Ages when almost...
Several complaints of thieving at the gymnasium have recently been made, which prompt us to give a general caution. It is a humiliating fact, that, among a body of two thousand students, there are almost sure to be a few without principles of honesty. This year three overcoats with money and valuables have been lost, and numerous towels have mysteriously disappeared. The gymnasium authorities are unable to prevent this while men leave their property scattered around so carelessly as at present. The men using the lockers must understand that they do so at their own risk and so must...