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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Prof. Eugene L. Richards, chairman of the Yale Graduate Advisory Committee, has taken the side of the Yale team captains, and in an open letter has advocated a reconsideration of last week's vote on the rule rejected at that time...
...idea of the erection and maintenance of a Phillips Brooks House, which is carefully explained in the letter from Mr. Abbott, published in another column should commend itself to everyone as an excellent opportunity to complete a work in which Dr. Brooks himself was so much interested, and for which he was, heart and soul, ready to do anything that he could. The few extracts from letters of his sufficiently show the warm interest he had in the matter. It is especially appropriate that active work in such a memorial should begin with his classmates and their generous subscription...
What Phillips Brooks thought in regard to a religious building is well shown in the following selection from a letter to the Students' Committee, written just before he sailed for Europe last June...
...have read your letter with great interest. The matter of a building for the religious societies of Harvard College has interested me for a great many years, and once or twice it has seemed as if we were on the point of securing what is certainly very desirable. I am glad to know that once more the young men themselves, who constitute the various religious societies of the college, are becoming awake to the necessity. I will do everything I possibly can in the autumn and winter, to help secure what is desired. Just what form this movement will take...
...seriousness with which this work has been undertaken and the plan on which it is to be carried out is shown by the closing passage of the circular letter...