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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...each other in any company. Thus it might be classed with the order of Freemasons. At present there is no secrecy about its proceedings, at least in Harvard. It is customary for the first twenty-five of the graduating class to compose it, but the number is a little less in the smaller colleges...
...HASTY PUDDING CLUBwas founded in 1795 by members of the class of 1797, and is the leading senior and junior society. It numbers a little less than one hundred, three-fourths of whom are chosen during the junior year of a class, the rest being chosen the following year. The origin of the name is as follows: In the year 1795, while the students were living together in commons, a member of the class of 1797, who was suffering from ill-health, hired an old lady living near by to cook him regularly some hasty pudding, thinking that this diet...
...this latter preposterous statement that I would disprove, annihilate, subvert - leaving not one stone on another. Of all the emotions that rule mankind, the most universal, the most persistent, is the longing for rest; second to it, and hardly less all-embracing, is the desire for joy, for laughter - the sweet laughter of the Homeric Gods...
...glad to see the new bulletin boards in Hollis and Stoughton - yes, and one in each entry even. Not that such a trivial matter as the existence of four bulletin boards, more or less, would cause such great joy to our hearts; but this change for the better is an omen, a presage of future improvements. For where little things do not escape the eye, there we may be sure that the big things are not neglected. When we see such a slight evil as the lack of bulletin boards in two buildings remedied, what shall not our hopes...
...fellow-men was moreover a Christian idea; and however much men outside of the faith may have equalled or surpassed Christians in the development of this principle, still the church had always repented such remissness to what had always been a fundamental part of its doctrine. Religion-less humanitarianism could offer as a motive nothing more than a sense of the wrongs of humanity. Christianity had as its motive the stirring belief - the divinity of each human soul. The power of Christian humanitarianism lay in its threefold presentation - by the Gospel, Preaching and the Church. Christianity had proved...