Word: everetts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Everett Athenaeum had a final dinner Wednesday evening in City Hall, Cambridgeport...
...fall of 1868, the Everett Athenaeum, a sophomore society, was formed by certain members of '71. For some years the Institute has been the sole society for sophomores, and many men had necessarily no society. The founders of the Everett Athenaeum were men of literary tastes, and it was due to their efforts that the society assumed such a high literary standard. According to the constitution, a board of three editors were to be appointed, whose duty it was to present alternately, at intervals of two weeks, a paper not to exceed thirty minutes in length. At every meeting...
...dead letter, and that the original aims of the society were multiplied. After much deliberation they decided that the constitution of the society was no longer carried out and that it was useless to continue. On the 27th of October by a vote of the past members the Everett Athenaeum was dissolved...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- The recent dissolution of the Everett Athenaeum emphasizes the fact that there is need of a sophomore society for our college. The Institute makes no pretensions to literary effort and represents but one-third of the class. This leaves two hundred men without a society. No one will deny that there is plenty of room for two more societies, and one of them at least should be literary in character. There is much literary ability in Harvard which is discouraged during the first half of the college course or remains wholly uncultivated. It is not right that...
...Everett Athenaeum, a sophomore society founded in 1868, has passed out of existence. The undergraduate members, at a recent meeting, feeling that the society outlived the purposes for which it was founded, and that there was consequently no further need of it, voted to disband. The society at the time of its organization was distinctly literary, but this feature had died out, and it had become merely a social club...