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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University was shocked yesterday afternoon to learn of the probable drowning of four Harvard students, William Campbell Trusdell L. S., of Newark, N. J., Edwin Stanton Bach '95, of New York, Franklin Whitall '94 of Philadelphia and John Farnam Brown '94, of Philadelphia. They went for a sail on Sunday afternoon from City Point and nothing more was heard of them until Monday night, when some clothing belonging to Trusdell and Brown was found near Thompson's Island. Yesterday morning the bodies of two men were found and were identified as the bodies of Bach and Brown. There...
...defeat of Harvard by Yale in the track games ought to drive home a lesson which Harvard must learn before an equal share in athletic victories will ever come to her. It is that if Harvard is to win, the whole of Harvard must unite in the attempt to win. Part of Harvard may do its best, but, if part of Harvard is to be pitted against the whole of Yale, how more than occasional victories can result...
...Saturday Dr. Parks concluded his service at Chapel. Members of the University will regret to learn that it is Dr. Parks's intention to retire from the Board of Preachers at the end of this year; his service with us has been long and valued...
...Divinity School, in place of Mr. J. M. W. Hall, who was unable to be present. Mr. Savage dwelt upon the pessimism of the age in which we live, and spoke of the many ways of overcoming the difficulties which are constantly besetting us. We must, said he, learn to face the world and receive its abuse and censure. Our only help at such times is in the Lord. If we trust in Him, He is willing to aid us and our success is assured; but without his aid we are powerless and must fall...
gence as the messages that run along the telegraph wire to the birds that perch on it. Few men learn the highest use of books. After life-long study many a man discovers too late that to have had the philosopher's stone availed nothing without the philosopher to use it. Many a scholarly life, stretched like a talking wire to bring the wisdom of antiquity into communion with the present, can at last yield us no better news than the true accent of a Greek verse, or the translation of some filthy nothing scrawled on the walls...