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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the executive committee of the Conference Francaise was held last evening and plans for the ensuing year were made. It is proposed materially to change the policy of the society and this change it is hoped will place the club on a higher plane then it has heretofore occupied. In the first instance, the executive committee will recommend at the first regular meeting, next Wednesday evening, that the annual French play be given before Christmas instead of late in the spring. It is expected that a repetition of 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' will be given in Boston...
...force how inadequate are our accommodations for the ever increasing number of students. Year by year more and more men have been crowded from the dormitories till now nearly two-thirds of the college rooms are outside. Moreover the prices of board in Cambridge, high already but always growing higher, make it a serious question for new comers and in some instances have deterred men from coming to Harvard. Thus at the very beginning a serious stumbling block is presented to new comers. We need more dormitories, we need large new dormitories capable of holding a hundred or a hundred...
...gain liberty, for anarchy or "no law" rule brings the worst sort of servility. All the forces which make enlargement of life possible, education, physical training, religion, are roads to liberty. From this we may form a definition of liberty. Liberty is the transfer of allegiance from lower to higher things. The young man again, who gives up law in his search for liberty, who moves in a world of irresponsibility, whose life becomes irregular and disorderly, never finds liberty till he attaches himself to some higher interest which swallows up all his smaller ones. He may find this higher...
...years the great growth of Harvard has been making itself manifest in even the smallest branches of the University. The statistics which are published every year bear witness to the unfailing increase in the number of men who choose Harvard as the institution at which to gain their higher education; and the present year especially has seen a tremendous addition to the numbers of the students. Side by side with these statistical evidences of growth have been seen others equally telling. The accommodations of the college have had to be increased to meet the pressure of the ever increasing work...
...other hand the athletic training which the schools now get is excellent. More interest is being shown in physical training and a much higher grade of athletics has taken the place of the rather childish sports of ten years ago. All this, as has been said so many times, has its effect on collegiate athletics; and this New England Interscholastic Association is the feeder of Harvard more than of any other college. It is in Harvard's interest for her to keep up the encouragement which she is giving to these school athletics...