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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...conducted at the observatory, while the examination of the photographs with reference to the phenomena pictured by them, could be carried on equally well in another place. The reason, then for risking longer, in an old frame building, the existence of an almost invaluable library of scientific records, is difficult to find, when at slight expense, though possibly with some trouble, the collection could be temporarily shifted to some fire-proof structure where, even though inconvenient for reference, it would at least be safe. The need of the observatory of funds to erect suitable buildings is urgent, but the probability...
...difficult to see how this plan can be called "a cautious experiment." A sudden reversal of the traditions of the college, even though the backward movement were very slight at first could be no mere experiment. It would be a step on an entirely new road, and one which it would be almost impossible to retrace. It would also inaugurate a new and most dangerous policy, for the college is now asked for the first time to cut off a part of its best education to regain time which has been worse than wasted in the lower schools, while there...
There are in college at present 229 seniors. 187 juniors, 166 sophomores and 90 freshmen who are members of the H. A. A. Why no more undergraduates and especially why so few freshmen have joined it is difficult to say unless it is because many do not understand about the association...
...Phillips Brooks spoke yesterday at the vesper service in Appleton Chapel. We know, said the speaker, in part, that great things are difficult to give and to receive. It is easy to give a dollar to a man, but it is hard to give hope to a man's soul. This is the mystery of life. We know how continually God's greatest gifts are passing away, and we cannot let them go till they have done what God meant them to do for us. There is always a sadness in what boyhood has not done for boyhood, and manhood...
...clearly, such judgment would be the same as that of the last day of the world. The trouble is that people try to judge themselves and past generations by the standards which they have made for themselves, and which are, accordingly, sure to be misleading. It is not difficult for a man to find fault with the deeds of his ancestors and to blame them, on the ground that every evil thought and action had transmitted its effect to him. But it does not so often happen that this man realizes how careful he should be himself...