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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there is any love for the perpetuation of the usefulness and glory of our college this example by the class of eighty-eight cannot be passed by with silence. Before many months the seniors will be gone and it will devolve upon eighty-nine to continue the labors which have been begun so courageously and borne so faithfully. There is in this change all the stamina of a movement which has right upon its side and its power is one which cannot lessen, but must increase with every day. There are times in the affairs of men when resolutions...
...athletics must degenerate into the routine of gymnasium work. During the fall we have looked forward to each Saturday afternoon as the event of the week, but now the foot-ball interest is gone there is nothing which we can anticipate except the winter meetings still far distant. Cannot some enterprising or imaginative student discover some excitement in the gymnasium or elsewhere which can take regularly on Saturday afternoons? It would be more useful than the literary productions which are published in the college papers, and would not require half the creative imagination...
Meanwhile there is another way in which support is needed. Figuring most carefully, the cost cannot be brought below the following...
These meetings will be reported abroad as entirely a student movement. They must be so in reality. It cannot afford to have the credit of success and let other people pay for it. Probably there are gentlemen in Boston who would not suffer them to cast ridicule instead of honor upon the college by failing through lack of money. Perhaps we may reasonably expect some outside backing, as the sum needed is not small; but it would be humiliating if we had to ask for it either in small or large amounts...
...periodicals published which contain as much of an interesting nature to the students of the college as the December number of the Magazine of American History. The first article, "Our Country Fifty Years Ago," is a summary of Lafayette's visit to this country in 1824 and cannot fail to awaken in the minds of every one who reads it the appreciation of the vast strides in culture and wealth which has been made in the United States during the past half-century. The present generation are apt to forget the condition of their country so many years...