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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those already familiar with Harvard customs the system of voluntary prayers needs no explanation or recommendation. To those, however, who are as yet strangers at Cambridge a word on this subject may be said. The system they will find here in vogue is of course new to them. They have hitherto been unused to perfect freedom, and religion has doubtless been more of an obligation than a privilege. They hear the Chapel bell with a consciousness that it rather invites than summons them, and for a moment they hesitate in the exercise of their duty. They forget, perhaps, that...
...fact certainly, taken by itself, is a gratifying sign of Harvard's growing prosperity. Unfortunately for all concerned, however, numbers pure and simple are no criterion of a class's merit, and this it will be well for Ninety-three to remember. The opportunities and obligations which you now find yours are strange. You have never enjoyed the freedom or the advantages which are now thrust upon you, and it is more than possible that you will abuse them both. With all your forced maturity and self reliance your point of view will be radically changed as you advance...
...fancy to learn the newspaper business, who has a faculty for good writing, who is willing to work with a view to promotion, may hear of a situation in a well established journal, in which he will be rated according to his merits and where he will find congenial and not ardious work, if he addresses Post Office box 229, Boston. One who has been brought up in Boston preferred...
...college. A student who does not offer plane trigonometry must take either plane trigonometry during his freshman year, and wait until his sophomore year before commencing analytics, or he may take an elementary course (B) in analytic geometry during his freshman year, and in that case he will find himself considerably embarrassed in pursuing the subject. For course 3 will be too advanced for him, while if he joins course C during the latter half of his sophomore year, he will find that since courses B and C are given by different professors the subject is so differently treated that...
...WHITNEY, Nurseryman Rochester, N. Y.A student of American Parentage, born in Florence, Italy, and educated there and in Germany to his sixteenth year, would be glad to find a paying position as tutor in Italian, French or German, conversational or otherwise...