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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...detail to an elaborate literary finish. Francis Parkman was the forerunner of a school by which historical integrity is regarded as absolutely necessary. He showed that it is possible to combine honesty of citation with good literary style, and his narratives so impressed their own force that they never, like the older histories, needed platitudes and generalizations to point the moral. They are picturesque while they are invariably faithful to fact...
...statements in the newspapers to the effect that students of the Annex under the new agreement will be admitted to the full privileges of the University, are absolutedly incorrect. They have already given outsiders the idea that something like co-education is to be put into practice here, while in reality the distinction between the Annex and the college is to remain exactly as at present...
...vacant. There are the three centre positions, and right tackle. Of the backs who played in the two championship games, only Waters and Gray will not be back. There are several good tackles, Connor, Gould and Beal. None of the candidates for the centre positions have yet shown anything like 'varsity form. Winslow plays well at centre but is rather light. It is not certain, either, that he will play next year...
...dead that was always shown for the living. And the students of this University, living in the same atmosphere which he breathed, acted upon by the same influences which produced in him so find a manhood, should be present in large numbers tonight to honor his memory. Occasions like this, when we stop for an hour in our busy lives to listen to the story of such a man as Mr. Parkman, are very impressive and very valuable. In the remarks which will be made tonight by President Eliot, Mr. Winsor and Professor Fiske, there are sure to come stories...
...work of the club begins with the college year, for on Registration Day and the preceding day, a committee of the club is on duty at some convenient place to receive new graduate students and to give them any assistance needed in finding rooms, choosing studies, and the like. As soon as possible after the beginning of the college year, the club gives a reception to the officers and members of the Graduate School, to the end of enabling men to form acquaintances which may be both pleasant and useful during the year. Its regular meetings are held at intervals...