Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Vesper Services will be held on Thursday of each week in term-time until further notice. Each service will begin promptly at 5 p.m. and close at 5.30. It will be largely musical and will contain a short address. The public are invited to these services...
...from each class, for a prize of $50, known as the "Class of '76 prize for debate in Political Science." The contestants were: Affirmative, R.E. Speer, '89 and F. H. White, '87; negative, J. J. Charlton, '90, and G. E. Scott, '88. The debate was spirited and very close. The judges gave the prize to G. E. Scott...
Washington's Birthday is again at hand, and all the world, with the exception of Harvard, is deep in the perusal of Irving's works; but we, poor students, are kept close to the fast revolving grindstone, and are allowed no opportunity to learn the personal history of the Father of His Country. This complaint is time-honored, and doubtless will continue to be so, but still we repeat it in the vain hope that the rulers some time will hear our prayers. Why should not Harvard College fittingly observe this legal holiday? It certainly would be a benefit...
...laziness and indolence. We all know how the very atmosphere of Cambridge seems to stir the soul and to urge the mind to work and learn. Yet, here in these self-same "classic shades" some ninety years ago, when the eighteenth century was striding on toward its close, there arose a systematic apotheosis of laziness. It was probably in 1796 that the idea of forming the Navy Club was conceived by some wag of the college. The principle of its existence was that it should be a brotherhood of all those who failed to attain distinction in their studies...
Vesper Services will be held on Thursday of each week in term-time until further notice. Each service will begin promptly at 5 p.m. and close at 5.30. It will be largely musical and will contain a short address. The public are invited to these services...