Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recurrence of this meeting between Harvard and Yale has attracted more attention than the last, and the general public is rapidly learning to look upon debating as the best test of the prowess of an educational institution, so far as it can be tested by intercollegiate contests of any kind...
...organization of this kind, looking to future, rather than immediate results, that most can be done to raise the plane of Harvard athletics. The resources of the University are large; much larger, in fact, than those of most of its rivals. There is no lack of muscle and brains with which to win. The trouble is that they are not made use of; that particular branches of activity are left to those who happen to be engaged in them at the moment. In short, there is not enough care taken to use all possible material, and when there...
...necessitated spreading and involved considerable work, but enough card room is now available for 10 years to come. Small drawers which can be taken from their places and used at a table are to replace the old fixed drawers in time, and all the additions have been of this kind. The author catalogue now fills both sides of the central case and the topical drawers have been moved along to the other racks. The library has had no donations of importance during the summer...
Most of the recent bequests to the University have been for specified purposes of some kind, with the result that the Corporation has felt seriously the need of ready funds for making improvements along the most needed lines. Now, however, that one of the largest gifts of recent years has come to the Corporation, this last summer, with no conditions imposed as to its use, we may look for several improvements which have long been desirable but which it has thus far been impossible to make. One addition, in particular, to the University, which has become almost a necessity...
...information concerning rooms and boarding places, for map of the College Yard and vicinity, all circulars, lists of courses of study, etc., and for general assistance of any kind, apply to the Committee on the Reception of Students, Professor N. S. Shaler, Chairman, University Hall, south entry, 1st floor, room...