Word: life
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is certainly no feature of the spring life at Harvard more welcome to the average undergraduate than the Glee Club singing on the Holworthy steps: in the first place a tradition which both "grads" and undergraduates would hate to see declining,- and besides a pleasure which we are all looking forward to as long hot days, cool evenings, and final examinations approach...
...present a capitation or an educational test alone, but an alternative one which will allow skilled laborers to enter. This will satisfy the economic need of the country, for as C. D. Wright says, the demand for unskilled labor is on the decrease. We must consider the social life of our people, not merely economic production...
...slums furnish us with a class of very valuable laborers, and an inmate of a slum is not per se undesirable. The majority of the immigrants that have come to this country in the past have been poor, but they have become easily assimilated to American conditions of life and habit and have become good citizens. We should not, therefore, exclude further those who are coming...
...first two lectures in the course on Soldier's and Sailor's Life were given in Sanders Theatre last evening. The small size of the audience was doubtless caused by lack of advertisement. President Eliot aptly introduced both speakers...
...Green, Asst. Surgeon First Corps of Cadets, spoke of "Camp Life" dealing especially with that in the 70's and '90's. He spoke from the medical standpoint, and showed the great changes which have been effected in the personnel and discipline of the miltia. He affirmed that the sanitary conditions of the camps and the personal hygiene of the men had been decidedly improved. One of the most important results of the changed conditions seemed to him the more general acknowledgement by the militia of the value of strict discipline...