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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Only a short time ago we laid to rest a leader in science who declared himself to be at the same time an evolutionist, a theist and a believer in the Nicene creed. Gray was like Darwin in respect to the religious use which he made of evolution. The judgment of our soundest minds is that theism is to suffer at the hands of evolution, not destruction, but reconstruction. Darwin admitted that no one understood the philosophy of evolution better than the late great botanist. Gray had stronger grasp on philosophy than Darwin. Gray was gifted with a clearer insight...
...receive the care they should. Many of them are cracking and are suffering in other ways from insufficient attention. This collection of paintings is valuable not only because it is composed of portraits of former benefactors of Harvard College, but because it numbers among its artists men like Copley and others of almost equal note. When it is considered how great the value of the collection really is, and how great an interest it will always have to students who come to Harvard, every means possible for preserving the paintings should be taken. We hope to see the authorities...
Arrangements are now being made at Amherst for a mock national convention to be held February 20th. Three hundred or more men are to be present as delegates from the different States, and the affair will be carried on as much like the national conventions as possible. College Hall will be decorated in a fitting manner, and the occasion will doubtless be one of great enthusiasm. The doorkeepers, pages, telegraph operators and presiding officers are to be chosen from the college at large. The names of four candidates-Blaine, Sherman, Hawley and Lincoln-will be brought before the convention...
...library which seems to me a little unjust, and which I should think might easily be changed. Unbound periodicals taken out Saturday afternoon must be returned Sunday, but they cannot be taken out again at the usual time Sunday afternoon. It often happens that a man would like to read some magazine Sunday evening, but is prevented by this rule. Would it not be feasible to make some arrangement so that one of the pages or other attendants could be on hand to oversee the magazine department? If they merely have to manage the slips as on other days...
...Reminiscences" abounds with anecdotes about men, now famous and many of them long since dead-men like Henry Ware, Josiah Quincy, Edward Everett, Ticknor, Felton, Fairfield and Pierce. The book, though made up of fragments as it is, will always be of value and interest to Harvard men. It pictures, as is pictured nowhere else, the different stages of life at our University during the last sixty years, breathing the kindly, gentle spirit of its author, who has always drawn out the good and won the love of all with whom he has come in contact...