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...pertinent to ask, where are the Harvard Poets? In the past we sought them in the pleasant pages of the Monthly, and found them there, Moody, Mackaye, Carpenter, and Hunt; today they are gone, and the bubbling Castalian spring of college verse has been transformed into a sluggish fountain pen. The Harvard Monthly, famous for over twenty-five years for the quality and finish of its verse, should first attempt to waken the spirit of true poetical inspiration, and add new lustre to its honorable roll. May the editors never forget the fact, that a pretty good poem is like...
...brick and stone drinking fountain has been erected in memory of Robert Stow Bradley, Jr., '07, who died shortly after leaving College, at the point behind Holworthy Hall where the Class of '76 fence terminates. The money for the fountain together with enough to extend the fence to the Meyer Gate was given to the University last fall by Robert Stow Bradley '76, of Boston. The fountain, which was designed by A. W. Longfellow '76, is built in the style of the masonry of the fence...
...even if Fresh Pond water has to be artfully substituted for the perilous spring water that lurks underground near Hollis. His letter is accompanied by a portrait of the old pump and an ode of President Roosevelt's College days, reprinted in its honor. Later the editor demands a fountain. Just what he says about, I cannot tell, since my proof stops short in the middle of a word, and the time vouchsafed by the Magazine to a reviewer precludes my getting the rest. Among the editorial articles not thus cut off, the most important urges the appointment...
During the April recess a drinking fountain was built in the main hallway of the Union towards the Periodical Room. The fountain is a memorial to Thomas Simms Bettens '74 and bears the following inscriptions: "He taught the classics with distinction for twenty-eight years in a secondary school in New York City and won the respect and affection of his pupils by his cheerful patience, justice, and hopeful sympathy. He was simple in his desires, sincere and unaffected in friendship, modest in all relations. This fountain is the gift of his boys, including graduates of Harvard, Yale, Princeton...
...centres, our cities have become little else. Even the amusements that are there are just a way of making money, or of spending it. Naturally, their politics have fallen under the same head. Graft is not a product but a corrupter of politics. And as to the source and fountain head of civic virtue, or the lack of it--the people! Homes, which should make the real city--let the last Tenement House Commission speak...