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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very ones who in a few years will be foremost in upholding the new reform? We think so. We believe that moral sentiment at Harvard has grown rapidly of late in many, and in right, directions. It is growing still, faster perhaps than may seem possible even to our best friends...
...speaking to a body of students, 20 or 30 in number, in regard to civil service reform. He spoke with great earnestness in respect to the reform as having a moral element, as being of no less importance than the old anti-slavery contest, in some aspects, perhaps, even of greater consequence than that. When he spoke in this way in regard to the moral principle involved in civil service reform, a very considerable part of that body of students laughed a little, as if it were a joke. It was an illustration of what I have been just...
SOPHOMORE THEMES.Theme V will be returned as follows: the even numbers on Thursday, Jan. 7; the odd numbers on Thursday, Jan. 14, from 2 to 4 p.m. in Sever...
...knowledge of Greek or Latin, while at Upsala and Lund they are required. The two latter universities have a somewhat arbitrary curriculum, while Stockholm gives a man great freedom of choice in his studies for a degree. By this course, although the youngest, she bids fair soon to rival even Upsala in wealth and numbers. All three of the universities are open to both sexes, and at Stockholm there is a chair in the highest mathematics occupied by a woman...
...sentimental standpoint. The Harvard Monthly is supposed to represent to a certain extent the feelings of the college, and if it cuts itself entirely loose from public sentiment it will perish. Now the writer maintains that there is no such morbid, pessimistic feeling among the students of Harvard, nor even among the literary men of the college, as this last number would seem to imply. In every issue, there has been a more or less marked fondness for the weird and sombre, but in this Christmas number, all disguise is thrown off and we are fairly overwhelmed with gloomy forebodings...