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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mirth by the condition of the public mind towards institutions of education. Many seem to regard Harvard as a patent machine, warranted by the corporation and faculty to take any material in its grip, and, after four years, turn out a first-class scholar and gentleman. No matter how ill prepared, how feeble the mind, how powerless the will, how vicious the habits, how indolent the nature, how undisciplined the character, Harvard is to turn them, one and all, into scholars and useful citizens. Much is done. The great majority, of whom little is heard, are developed and improved. After...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Risks and Requirements. | 1/21/1888 | See Source »

...Cleary," the old negro so well known about the Chemical Laboratory, is now at home dangerously ill. He has been connected with the university for upwards of forty years, and before the time of janitors used to tend fires and black boots, in which capacity he served Prof. J. C. Cooke while in college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/16/1888 | See Source »

Prof. Cooke has been ill for several days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/14/1888 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Now that it looks as if we should have to give up hopes of a swimming bath for the present, a little money should certainly be expended in improving the bathing arrangements at the gymnasium. The present system is distressingly inadequate and ill-managed. It is small encouragement to a man practicing on any of the teams to know that after five o'clock he will find the walls of the bath-room lined four deep with shivering mortals and the hot water all gone. If the college can not afford to enlarge the bath-room-which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/14/1888 | See Source »

Miss Harris has been ill for some time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/12/1888 | See Source »

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