Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum the Rev. Dr. George A. Gordon of New Old South Church, Boston, read a scholarly lecture on the "Immortality of Man." His reasoning appealed to the intelligence rather than to the heart...
...mind about what it is reading today, it will then be reading something else, and our criticism will always lag superfluous in the development of taste; it will be useful to students, but caviar to the public. It is not, then, worth while to take Grimm's words to heart, and to have the courage to fail rather than leave the task unattempted? If the critic can be more helpful, he may be content to be less profound, original, or mature." The first three chapters of the work sketch the development of French literature till the close of the eighteenth...
...enthusiasm shown in Harvard during the campaign, now over, will do much to give the lie to those who assert that college men in general, and Harvard men in particular, hold themselves aloof from politics and have not the welfare of the country at heart-in other words, that they are not loyal. Harvard men have sometimes been called dilletantes, "gentlemen" rather than men deeply interested in their fellow men and in the political and social welfare of the nation...
...begin to make its appearance we strove to encourage it in these columns. This has been our attitude from the first, and it is our attitude today. We should be unwilling to do anything to lessen the true, right sort of enthusiasm, which inspires in every student's heart a warmer affection for Harvard. But students must be careful at the start, when the new spirit of enthusiasm is just springing up, that it is rightly directed and not carried to a point that will injure our athletics...
...Freshman crew is very much in need of money. Only a small part of the money needed to cover the necessary expenses of the crew has been raised so far. All members of Ninety-nine who have the interests of the crew at heart are urged to sign the subscription book which has been left at Sanborn...