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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...much like a specialist's. The pupils on leaving will be well equipped to begin life and will find no difficulty in obtaining a situation. A girl can learn dressmaking, that is manuals then in another department she can learn drawing and color and go still higher to the departments of art if she desires...
...Medical School 71 and in the law school 89; considerably more than half of the total gain is made in these three schools. An interesting point in connection with this is that the increase in the number of graduates of other colleges who have entered these higher schools has been more than proportional to the growth of the schools, rapid as that has been. This means that the character of these schools and the sort of work they are doing is being more widely recognized and valued. Harvard determines the standards...
...addition to the Lawrence Scientific School is about finished. It will be used as an electrical work-shop and is probably the first of a series of work-shops for the study of the higher sciences, as the benefit of actual work at the bench is beginning to be more and more highly thought...
...attended last night's conference meeting must have come away from it with a deeper respect and higher appreciation for the Athletic committee. The conference certainly showed that the service of the committee to Harvard athletics has never been adequately appreciated. The historical statement of the work it has done and the objects it has sought illustrates forcibly the danger of unintelligent criticism, of which the committee has certainly received more than its share. The statement shows that every action of the committee has been a well considered step in the direction of more rational and more intelligent athletics...
...even when we are often to blind to see them, and all the return He wants is a man's best self. He does not wish, in this sacrifice what men are apt to suppose. He does not ask surrender of the best of life, but calls to the higher life when men would choose the lower. He asks for souls, to make them richer and nobler than they could even dream of by themselves, and He wishes to strengthen and beautify, not merely to possess. Men are slow to realize that this sacrifice which seems so hard is infinitely...