Word: deeping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...occasion of deep interest and of more than common significance will occur presently at Cambridge, Mass. Henry Irving has been invited to speak at Harvard University, on the general subject of the stage and dramatic art, and he has accepted the invitation. Mr. Irving's address will be delivered in the Sanders Theatre, on Monday, March 30. The actor's art could not have a more authoritative voice to speak its mission and advocate its cause. The audience will be worthy of the speaker, for it will represent one of the foremost institutions of learning and one of the most...
...columns we print this morning,- and with deep regret,- the ultimatum of the President and Fellows of the University in regard to the petition for voluntary prayer. Signed by an overwhelming majority of the undergraduates, endorsed by many of the prominent alumni of the college, and strongly approved by the leading journals of the country, we felt justly confident that this petition would produce the desired effect. But the authorities by whom Harvard is governed are not troubled by that vice of small minds-consistency. While making the most sweeping changes in their frantic haste to reach the state...
...deep interest which the students take in the recently adopted requirements for admission to Harvard College was shown by the large number who attended the debate of the Harvard Union last night. The first business before the meeting was the adoption of an amendment to the constitution by which the number of the executive committee is increased to five, the vice-president, ex-officio, and one member from each class. This committee will be announced to-morrow...
...honorable either to the students, or to their religion. It is strange that within a week after the Harvard faculty had passed resolutions in favor of making morning chapel voluntary, an act in our own college should have confirmed the truth of their position, that no very deep religious significance is attached to a compulsory attendance by the average student...
...citizens some of the leading authorities in economical matters in this country, as, for example, Gen. Francis A. Walker, Mr. Atkinson and Mr. Bradford. If any one of these gentlemen could be induced to deliver one or more lectures at Harvard, we feel sure that there would be deep gratitude felt on the part of the students...