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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...kindly grant us space to call attention to the project of the Archeacological Institute, to buy and excavate the site of the Delphic oracle and temple. There is no other work of the kind remaining to be done in Greek lands, at all comparable with this in importance and interest. Like the Attis at Olympia and the Acropolis of Athens, the Delphic temenos was an art museum of a national character. How many of the three thousand statues to be seen there in Pliny's time still lie buried beneath the cottages and narrow streets of Kastin-the little modern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 10/12/1889 | See Source »

...student organization, managed by and for the undergraduates, and hence that it needs the support of the college at large. This, too, it deserves. It has been and is its purpose to present for discussion at each meeting, some one timely topic, either of public or of local student interest. The discussion upon the chosen subject is carried on in perfect parliamentary manner by leading disputants and after ward thrown open to the house for discussion. In this way the greatest freedom is obtained together with the best results. But these cannot of course be obtained without student support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/11/1889 | See Source »

...College Conference meetings were organized for the purpose of bringing professors and students, or distinguished visitors and students together for the discussion of important topics of general college interest, and in order to facilitate this object the sessions have been conducted quite informally in that they have given an opporiunity for the free expression of student opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/9/1889 | See Source »

...College Conference meetings, which have been held during the last three years with increasing interest and profit, will begin again tonight in Sever as announced in another column. To those who have already been in college a year these meetings need no recommendation. They have beyond a doubt proved their claim to student recognition and patronage. To those who are unacquainted with the purpose of the meetings, however, a word of explanation may be a kindness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/9/1889 | See Source »

...meeting tonight is to be of peeutiar interest both in the speakers who are to open the discussion and in the question to be considered. Last year, it will be remembered, Professor Peabody held an informal meeting at his own home at which various schemes for student charitable work were discussed. At the meeting tonight this subject will be further considered under the leadership of Robert Treat Payne, president of the Boston Associated Charities, and C. W. Birtwell, secretary of the Children's Aid Society. It is earnestly hoped that some definite scheme for student charities may be made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/9/1889 | See Source »

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