Word: harvards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Christmas trip was announced as final yesterday, and so a pleasant custom which was thought likely to become a fixture has been broken almost at the start. The only reason advanced for the refusal was that such a trip as that proposed is contrary to the whole policy of Harvard-that it is not her desire to advertise herself through any one of her organizations. The excuse given is hardly sound, for if the argument were consistently carried out intercollegiate athletics would be entirely abolished. In the first place we fail to see the unwisdom in allowing such an advertisement...
...however, that a Glee club trip is in any proper sense of the word an advertisement. Last year the benefit accrued, and was intended to accrue to the graduates rather than to the college or the members of the Glee club. Those to whom the treat was rarest were Harvard graduates who found it both pleasant and profitable to renew their associations with their Alma Mater, if but for a single evening. They are thereby entitled to recognition, if the Glee club are not; and it is as much on their account as on the account of the Glee club...
FRESHMAN GLEE CLUB.- Rehearsal in Roberts hall this afternoon at 5 sharp. Members can get their shingles at my room, 410 Harvard street, after paying the assessment...
Among the religious books is a manuscript edition of the Koran, the Gospel in Greek and Latin, and Eliot's Indian Bible, the first Bible published in America; a Greek bible which belonged to Dunster the first president of Harvard, and a copy of the Bay State Psalm book, which was printed in 1640. end was the first book printed in America north of Mexico...
Pach Bros., photographer for Harvard have on exhibition some elegant large photographs just the thing for Christmas They are also getting up a new size which will be called the Harvard Panel a good sized head mounted on 11x14 card for framing or on a gilt beveled edged card 7x10. We propose making this size for $3.00, regular price $6.00. This is for Xmas and only to Harvard...