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...December number of the New England Magazine contains an article by William Reed Bigelow on "Harvard's Better Self." It consists of a survey of the moral advantages which Harvard students enjoy and the use they make of them. The author discusses at length the worship which centers in Appleton Chapel: The morning prayers, the Sunday evening services, Vespers, the conference with the members of the Board of Preachers, etc. With the aid of quotations from articles by Professor Peabody and Rev. D. N. Beach as well as from statistics, the writer establishes the fact, well known...
Passing next to the religious societies the author speaks of the Young Men's Christian Association, the St. Paul's Society and the Total Abstinence League. He comments on the fact that to be interested in religious work does not as one might judge from the malice of the daily press, debar a man from prominence in athletic life. Very rarely has Harvard sent a Mott Haven to New York that has not included among its prize winners active religious men. "The president of the Athletic Association during the past year was also president of the St. Paul's Society...
Harvard owes the author of "Harvard's Better Self" in the New England Magazine a debt of gratitude for his effort, as one well acquainted with what he speaks of, to make public the true spirit which exists here in regard to religious matters. The mass of nonsense and falsehoods which has been turned out for a public willing to believe anything without discount, has caused many a true Harvard man to feel the slander keenly. The truth of the matter has never been so eagerly sought for as has the other side. It was not for our Professors...
...last three weeks among the many new books added to the University Library are some especially valuable ones. Among these are the following: F. Arbuthnot's "Arabic Authors;" Babcock's "Two Lost Centuries of Britain"; "The Historical Register of the U. S. Army from its Organization Sept. 29, 1789 to Sept. 29th, 1889," by F. B. Heitman; Achille Luchaire's "Les Communes Francaises a Pepoque des Capetiens directs; Mendelyeef's "Grundlagen der Chemie"; A facsimile of the earliest edition of Columbus's letter announcing the discovery of the New World; "Leibnitz's New Essays Concerning the Human Under standing," John...
...next author taken up in English 9 will be Jane Austen...