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...when Professor Merriam's appointed year of office will end, on the condition that a permanent endowment for the School shall be secured before that time. Dr. Waldstein has accepted the invitation with this condition. It is obvious that there is no time to lose, if we are to avail ourselves of this opportunity. It should certainly be an object of national pride not only to secure the permanent establishment of an institution which is so full of promise to American scholarship, but at the same time to reclaim for his country a scholar who has gained laurels...
...only 57 per cent of the Harvard undergraduates used the library, but now nearly 90 per cent avail themselves of his privileges. This statement from President Elliot's report, shows two things: one, that 10 years ago there must have been a sad lack of at least one branch of culture; the other, that it is now popular at Harvard to be known as a reading man. - Boston Record...
...they believe that by compelling such students to go to church they may attain their end. But we are satisfied that they are making a great blunder. They are trying to win those who are out of the fold. Those who are already in it will voluntarily avail themselves of religions privileges and, with rare exceptions, remain steadfast in the faith. These are not the students for whose improvement and conversion the college authorities express anxiety. But if compulsion really does not attract, but does repel, those for whose good it is exerted; if it tends to confirm...
...efficacy of the system when put in practice. Many of these doubts have been shown to be unfounded as time shows no diminution in the number of those who attend Chapel Service. Every man now feels it to be his duty to the University and to himself to avail himself of those advantages which at his own request have been placed before him for his choice or refusal. But Harvard is no longer a college. Why then should the spirit of a college still cling to her? Why should only the members of the college proper be called upon...
...there is any truth in the proverb that the smell of the bullock's blood is apt to beget a savagery in the slayer, the sweet voice of our Katharine may not have been without avail in mollifying the asperities of temper - if he had any - in that young Surrey butcher, Robert Harvard...