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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...speak strongly: because I feel, and everybody else feels, that our athletics are very critical this year-that our chances are very uncertain as yet, and that we must leave no stone unturned. I have heard many men express the desire that this petition be started, and I am sure that everybody would subscribe. The best way to go about would be the method employed in the prayer petition. At any rate the base-ball management, if it cares anything for the nine's success, must wake up and go to work on this matter, and at once...
...been suggested to us that it would be well to follow up the idea expressed in the communication and editorial of Wednesday's issue in regard to the spring recess by a petition to be presented to the President and Fellows of the college. Accordingly we have taken it upon ourselves to place a blue-book containing a petition at Leavitt and Peirce's for the signatures of all those who are interested in the matter. For the benefit of those who did not see the communication and editorial referred to we would say that the proposed plan...
...leading educational institutions of New England have united with Harvard in the movement, and have issued identical lists of the literary works with which freshmen are required to be familiar. So far as the purpose of this endeavor is concerned we have only the heartiest approval to express. We hold a thorough mastery of the English language to be the one thing absolutely essential to the education of English speaking men, and we regard the literature of the English language as the one literature with which it is a shame for any educated man or woman to whom English...
...versifying than as a piece of poetry. "The Templar's Song" is very musical and is full of martial notes. It sets us right in the midst of the Crusades. This poem breathes more healthy life and has much more blood in its veins, if I may so express myself, than much else that we have seen from the pen of the same writer...
...next Boston Sunday Globe a number of Harvard professors and other distinguished men throughout the country will express their views, over their signatures, on MODERN JOURNALISM, AS IT IS AND SHOULD BE. A collection of opinions of this sort has never before been printed, and it is found to call forth much comment. Among those who contribute articles on this subject to the Globe are Professor A. S. Hill, Professor Josiah Royce, Mr. Barrett Wendell, Mr. George R. Nutter, Professor Frank W. Taussig, Admiral Porter, Anthony Comstock, Honorable S. S. Cox and Russell Sage...