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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...state, Plato believed, was formed of several individuals for mutual benefit. The young should be carefully trained with a view to becoming good citizens. Their education was to be the regular Greek training in letters, music and gymnastics. This training was to last till they were twenty years old, when, according to fitness, they were to be separated into the guardians of the state, the military, and the commons. The first two classes were to be supported by the state, in return for their services. The guardians were to hold their wives and children in common. The children were...
...Harvard Memorial Society is doing an excellent thing in not admitting the public to its lectures until just before the lecture begins. This is just what should be done at every lecture given here for the benefit of students of the University. To most of the more important lectures that are delivered here, whether under the auspices of student organizations or of the University, the public is not only freely admitted but cordially invited. The result of such an arrangement is that the front seats are all taken by the respectable Cambridge citizens, and the students are compelled...
...sink one's own personality for a common object. We are all one huddle of sticks and if one breaks we all break; the surest way for one to raise himself is to raise and honor the college. It is not the man who only tries to benefit himself, but he who now fights best for Harvard, who makes Harvard his ideal, that will later make his country his ideal. Sometimes men say they try hard to do a good work, then do not receive social recognition. Surely he does not need more recognition than that which comes...
...Prospect Union wishes to express its appreciation of the kindness of the Harvard Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs in giving a concert for the benefit of the Union a short time ago. This concert added a substantial sum to our needy treasury and emphasized again the spirit of help fulness in the University to which the Prospect Union has never appealed in vain...
...first concert will take place April 8, in Palladio Hall, Roxbury. It will be for the benefit of the "Tremont Dispensary," and will be followed by dancing. On Monday, April 13, the orchestra will play in Providsnce, R. I., under the auspices of the Union of Practical Progress. The proceeds will be devoted to a fund for a summer playground in Providence...