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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dinner of the Alpha Delta Phi, Rev. E. E. Hale, to illustrate his point that men of wide reputation in letters may be of really better material than men who may be more proficient in studies, told of a letter which was written by a friend of James Russell Lowell to an acquaintance in Europe in the year of Lowell's graduation. He wrote that James Lowell had fallen in his studies and the facuty were rather down on him, but the boys liked him and had chosen him class poet, and that Lowell's father had said, "Oh, dear...
...annual dinner of the Alpha Delta Phi society was held last night in Boston. The Alpha Delta Phi is the oldest and one of the most honorable of the college Greek-letter societies. Established in 1832, it celebrated its semi-centennial last year. It is established in about twenty of the leading colleges of the country, and numbers among its members who take an active part in the society, some of the most prominent clergymen, lawyers, professors, journalists, and other professional men in the country. The annual dinners attract large numbers of members, of whom there are more than...
Saturday's Transcript contains a sharp editorial criticism on the recent letter in the Nation on religious discipline at Harvard. In concluding it proposes an astonishing solution of the question, viz : "A leading churchman of this city favors the division of Harvard University into separate colleges, each religious denomination to have control of its own. He believes that this will some time take place...
...letter was received by Yale yesterday from Harvard, in which the latter adheres to her former position, objecting to a neutral committee, and insisting that if the conditions previously laid down are not observed, the race must be abandoned. A meeting of the graduate advisory committee will be held today to take action in the premises. The Yale Club will be governed by what the committee directs. Most Yale men insist that the challenge must be accepted and then allow the graduate advisory committee to arrange the details, and, if unable to do so, to abide by the decision...
...dispatch from New Haven to the Boston Herald, dated last evening, says : "A letter was received tonight by the secretary of the Yale Boat Club, from the secretary of the Harvard Boat Club, in which it was stated that Harvard did not understand that the graduate committee had full power in the premises, and asking that they be advised on that point. If the committee had full power in the matter, they could not imagine that a joint committee should be unable to reach a satisfactory conclusion, and they proposed to abide by their decision. But they wished to express...