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...second of the Harvard Memorial Society lectures this evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room, on "Harvard During the Civil War." He will describe the condition of the college at the time of the war, and the separation of the northern and southern men to enlist in the armies. He will also relate the history of the College during the rebellion and will speak of the services rendered the country by many of the Harvard...
...editorial on the "Bloody Monday" question in the current number will enlist the majority of undergraduates on its side; it presents the arguments in favor of the rush with keen clearness and force. A "Specimen Lecture--English 8," and "Heart to Heart Talks with Freshmen" are the best of the other prose articles in the number. The full page drawing by Welldon is remarkably well drawn; none of the other drawings are noteworthy...
...Pierian already have a realizing sense of their place and duty in the University, but the other clubs could certainly do more towards promoting a healthy College spirit by giving an occasional concert in Sanders Theatre. In addition, such an evident desire to please the undergraduates would enlist their sympathy in any future moves for Christmas trips...
...necessary, under our faulty democratic government, to give the war an "unconditional moral support." How this extraordinary task is to be accomplished he explains with the utmost lucidity. The undergraduates are to contribute to the "austere and thoughtful academic influence" of the University by refusing to enlist until a call shall be received to which they can, without loss of dignity, respond. Meanwhile, the fighting shall be left to fellows whose fathers did not happen to send them to college, and who, if they happen to be shot or to die of yellow fever, will be no great loss...
That the young gentleman who wrote this editorial should disapprove of the war and of the American government is distressing, but must be borne with patience. That there are good reasons why every young man in the country who has the impulse to enlist should think twice before he follows it we can not doubt; President Eliot has made for us a very clear and noble aualysis of the different motives to enlistment. But two of the ideas presented in the editorial are so novel to a graduate that I can not forbear a comment. The first is the proposition...