Word: comee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college mates of how God's judgments fall upon those that seek unrighteousness, - the sermon caught from a few unhappy and cursed lives would speak stronger words than any prophetic warnings. You would respond with eagerness to an appeal to the future and to the rewards that come to them that seek the right. But my sole appeal today is to the past. I want to lead you to a study of a few of the early principles of Harvard's history and thus to a few of the principles of what I think should be a Harvard...
...Military Science, Lieutenant Robinson will give a new half course, 2, on military engineering. It will come in the second half year as a continuation of course...
...second piece of good fortune which has come to the Prospect Union has caused these plans-to been changed. A gentleman has come forward with a gift of one thousand dollars. But in granting this he makes this condition: The Prospect Union must take the old City Hall clear of debt. He specifies that this be done by the first of next October. But it is very probable that some extension of time may be obtained...
...Yale as compared with that of Harvard has grown in the last ten years, while that of Harvard has grown everywhere else. It is safe, I think, to say that most of the students who would probably be drawn to college by love for athletics rather than for scholarship come from the East. Whether the recent success of Yale in the field of athletics and of Harvard in the field of scholarship can explain the tendency here noticed will never, I suppose, be mathematically demonstrated...
...seventy more students come to Harvard than to Yale. It may be added, that the only states in which Harvard has suffered much relative loss during the ten years in question are Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.- (Harvard Graduates' Magazine...