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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Seelye of Amherst college has been obliged through ill health to abandon his duties for the year. At his departure for Europe on Monday all the students turned out in a body and cheered him as his train left the station...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/5/1889 | See Source »

Upanishad originally means "sessions" because the people were wont to sit in circles about the philosophers to learn of the doctrine. The ideas of the Upanishad were three in number. First, the existence of an eternal soul of souls; second, the invisible emanations from the soul, ill-understood, but known as mind; and lastly the method of arresting the migration of the mind and restoring it at length to the soul. This is a grander conception than any other ancient religion. These woodmen the Brahmins call God by three different names. "Sut," meaning being; "Chit," intelligence; "Anando," bliss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sir Edwin Arnold's Lecture. | 10/2/1889 | See Source »

...itself, a few-we are glad to say, a few-seek pleasure in making conspicious their own bad taste. How much better and more manly it would be if the rush of "Bloody Monday Night" were purely a exhibition of class spirit and prowess, untainted by any show of ill-breeding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/30/1889 | See Source »

...ill success that followed our athletics during the last year naturally had a depressing effect upon the spirits of Harvard men. The summer now passed, however, it is time that this feeling should be forgotten and that we should freely co-operate with those who have our athletic interests most at heart. Football, of course, is now the chief athletic interest, and to football we first turn our attention. While the captain of the eleven has done and is doing his best, he must have your assistance in order that he may succeed. Subscriptions are necessary, but subscriptions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/26/1889 | See Source »

...athletics," but that study receives more attention here than at our rival college, and that therefore "the real cause of our lack of superiority in athletics (not our inferiority) is the greater earnestness and higher kind of work done here." The second takes a different ground and attributes our ill success to our social system. It argues that the athletics of the freshman class have their interests turned aside by their election to a sophomore society, "which takes his time and strength away from his athletics." This leads to a state where "athletics are in the hands of a chosen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 6/19/1889 | See Source »

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