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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Samuel Eliot then alluded to the fact that when Colonel Sever was in college he was only saved from being "rusticated" by the interference of the President, and thus the Sever bequest was insured. He recommended the matter to President Eliot as a good result of easy discipline. Turning to Governor Rice, he said, "I shall enter upon no encomium to Massachusetts. Here she stands, and here she sits...
...occasional differences of opinion, which each has entertained for the other, we were much surprised at the tone of a recent editorial in our esteemed contemporary. The fiery and excited effusion we refer to was written ostensibly to show the condition of the boat-clubs, but in point of fact to relieve some one who was smarting under imaginary injuries of his pent-up feelings. The pettiness and flippancy of the Advocate's criticism do not need comment; neither is it our intention to question the propriety of the Advocate calling our editorials "nonsense"; we simply desire to correct...
...intention of foreclosing his mortgage on the boats and oars belonging to the four clubs, either this spring or next autumn. It would be very poor policy, besides, if he should foreclose, for he could not get enough money from the boats to cover his loss. Another interesting fact which the Advocate seems to have overlooked is, that Mr. Blakie has a lease of the club boat-house of the Corporation, and that this lease will not expire until a year from next October. If he should sell the boats he would still have the rent...
Those who recognize the catholicity which the trustees of the Library have shown in the selection of books will be surprised to learn that the poems of the Persian poet, Omar Khayam, are not on its shelves. The poems of Saadi and Hafiz are there, but, notwithstanding the fact that there is an elegant English translation of this astronomer poet, none of his works can be found in the College Library except his Algebra, and a few extracts from his verses published in the North American Review...
...surprising that Omar should have busied himself with the same problems that are occupying men's thoughts to-day, for they are the questions that men in all lands and in all ages have been trying to answer; but the remarkable fact in regard to him is, that his mind ran in the same veins, and evolved the same conclusions, as the minds of the leading philosophers and scientists of to day. It is only within a few years that theologians of established worth have been willing to admit truths in regard to the future life that the astronomer poet...