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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...what a change! We awake to find all our bulwarks against this distressingly prosaic and democratic country rudely thrust aside. A hungry monster has arisen, which threatens to absorb us, annex us, - call it what new-fangled name ye will! We are hampered by the Port! While we of Old Cambridge have been enlightening the world, dreaming with Plato, fighting with Calvin, discussing with Darwin, a town - a modern, busy, trading, prosaic, mushroom, damnable town - has been started, is growing beneath our very nose! We believe they have a "City Hall" and a "Government," - we are not sure that...
...injuriousness of late study we will say nothing; but those who do not approve of it would be forced into it by late dinners, and the larger portion of the hard students, those who intend to do the heavier part of their work in the evening, would find themselves in no fit condition to accomplish much...
...several reasons. Of these the most important is the age of its members, to which the consideration of death is both repugnant and unnatural. All our pursuits have a direct bearing on our immediate future which they presuppose, and therefore our future as a whole is apt to find no place in our calculations. We are eminently a hopeful community. Success in some one or other of its forms seems so certainly to await us on graduation, that we are impatient of delay, and hail the day with joy which introduces us to life, and bids us put to test...
...much as he could of Harvard feeling. His death is but another instance of self-denying and laborious preparation deprived of the expected opportunity to fulfil itself here. Did we not believe that it was to have elsewhere a wider scope, we should only have despair where we now find consolation. On Thursday he was buried (as he had wished to be) from the church in Cambridge-port, - the church to which he had given a large share of his time, whose services he had helped to beautify. In his death, although he was but entering upon his work...
...indignant supporters of down-trodden woman will not find, from the statistics presented here, many arguments to support their cause. There are sixty-seven colleges mentioned where women are taught together with men, and twenty-eight more where they alone are admitted. The fact that these institutions do not have more students shows that it is not necessary to open any more at present. Vassar, of course, leads the list of Colleges only for women, and she has but four hundred and eleven students...