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Will you allow me to say, in answer to your correspondent of today, that the Day of Prayer for Colleges has been for years observed with sympathy at this University. We do not interrupt the regular duties, or-as in some colleges-make the day a holiday, but on Thursday next, both at morning prayers and at the afternoon Vesper Service, there will be special reference to the day and its associations. I have no doubt that the Christian Association also, at its meeting at 6.45 p. m., on Thursday, will, as usual, keep...
...system? A consideration of these questions forces the conclusion that the present system of mid-year examinations is far from satisfactory. It seems clear that something ought to be done. Either they ought to be abolished altogether, or else some plan should be devised by which they would not interrupt the year's work for three weeks nor give an opportunity for men to cram down the requirements of over three month's work in as many days...
...others in settling down to the serious work of life is an open one. It is true that loyalty and the pressing call of undergraduates often draw them back, and we shall ever be grateful beyond measure to them for coming back. But beyond the fact that this may interrupt the course of their business we do not think, judging from our own college past athletics that this difficulty of settling down to the serious work of life is so great, or that the interruption to their business is, in most cases, disastrous...
...Dyke will be keenly felt by the men who had the pleasure last year of hearing their kind words of thoughtful advice. In their place come Rev. E. Winchester Donald from his church in New York and Rev. Washington Gladden who though not a Harvard man, has agreed to interrupt his work in Columbus, Ohio, and to come east to Cambridge to give his time to Harvard. Rev. Lyman Abbott, Rev. C. C. Everett, and Rev. Leighton Parks continue to serve on the Board of Preachers, and Rev. F. G. Peabody has returned to his position of Plummer Professor...
...foot ball squad was obliged to interrupt its regular work yesterday owing to the heavy fall of snow. The men were, instead, put through some dumb-bell exercises and afterward took a short run up to Porter's Station. Men have been put to work on Norton's shovelling and carting off the snow so that the squad can resume its regular work on Monday...