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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...about architecture as a profession is that it is many sided," uniting artistes taste with practical business capacity. The wide range of study necessary to an architect "would naturally be attractive to a student" in these days of specialization; but at the same time it makes the preparation especially difficult. Among the architects' other troubles are unreasonable clients, unscrupulous contractors, and small pay but a man who is thoroughly in sympathy with his work finds these more than counterbalanced by the pleasures of designing, of finding enthusiasm among his assistants, and of intimate relations with clients. Mr. Peabody warns college...
...last paragraph is the most memorable of all. It has been pretty thoroughly proved that Harvard is not becoming provincial. How the new regulations show a tendency to provincialism it is difficult to see. Men do not come to Harvard because the nine plays Princeton twice a year in New Jersey; nor because thirty men compete in the games at New York every spring. The influences which make Harvard a national university are much broader and deeper, and will be little affected by the restriction of athletics to a reasonable area...
...last evening with Stephenson's comedy-drama, "Impulse." Mrs. Kendal as Mrs. Beresford was charming. Her grace and vivacity made her the central figure when on the stage, though her part was subordinate. Mr. Kendall also was excellent in Captain Crichton. The other characters were well acted, especially the difficult one of Mrs. Macdonald, taken by Miss Violet Vanbrugh. "The Queen's Shilling" will be given tonight and "The Iron Master" tomorrow night...
Life at Amherst is so entirely different from life at Harvard that it is difficult to draw a comparison between the two colleges. Amherst men live under the restraint of faculty regulations so numerous that every hour feels its burden; compulsory church and chapel, compulsory gymnasium work, and a fixed allowance of absences from recitations, keeps the hand of the governing body continually before the students. The result is only partially successful; men feel in duty bound to take the full limit of allowed absences from recitations, and are continually striving to invent means to avoid their other compulsory tasks...
...kept the temperature many degrees too warm, and, combined with the lack of fresh air has made the place exceedingly uncomfortable. To a person coming in from the open air the stuffy atmosphere is almost unbearable. The bad air undoubtedly dulls the senses, produces drowsiness and renders it very difficult to fasten the attention...