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...improvements, general expenses, and the various useful objects to which the incomes of special funds are devoted. Under these circumstances, in the absence of any single benefactor who desires to erect a suitable reading-room and stack, is it not time that the whole body of the alumni and friends of the University should undertake to provide by a general subscription these indispensable means of instruction and research? It is the most comprehensive object for which money can be given to a university; for the Library is needed by every teacher and student no matter what his department. A well...
...membership is extremely limited owing to the close cooperation necessary among the participants, but the organization has done much to stimulate a desire for the study of American history, especially of Colonial and Revolutionary times. Through the courtesy of a friend of the club the "Cary Mansion," built by Governor Bellingham in 1656, has for the first time been intelligently studied...
...student customs and student life which crop out occasionally in the public prints. They are generally written with such a complete understanding as might have come either to a book agent who has spent a few hours in a dormitory or to a man who has lunched with a friend at Memorial Hall...
...Phillips delivered the funeral oration over the body of his friend Garrison. Five years later he laid down a life which had done for the cause of American liberty a deed which may not be forgotten by those who consider themselves true Americans. The eloquence, wit and sarcasm of Wendell Phillips were unequalled. His pity and sympathy, and his constant open-heartedness, were far-famed. His love for the city of his birth was intense, and he expressed it many times in his public speeches...
...deliver next Friday under the auspices of the Wendell Phillips Club. Of "Wendell Phillips and the Orators of his Time" Mr. Garrison is peculiarly fitted to speak. He has had unusual opportunities for becoming acquainted with the private life of Wendell Phillips, of whom his father was an intimate friend; and his address can, therefore, not fail to be of great interest...