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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...because it was suggested by the students. The trustees having expressed their disapprobation of that name the building for a time was known as "Anonymous Hall," "Flunkers Flat" and "The Hole." Much to our relief it has finally been christened "Hamilton Hall," which is certainly high toned and will look well when engraved upon the invitation cards of college receptions...
...says, "if one Harvard student in forty could give a clear statement of the value to astronomers of the observations made on Wednesday last. Towards the end of the year the senior class are invited to visit the observatory and inspect it, and they are then given a look at the moon. With this valuable amount of astronomical knowledge is the Harvard student thrown upon the world. Many high school scholars know more of astronomy than an average Harvard graduate. The university would do well to give its students a little more of the good which might be obtained from...
...perhaps equivocal. Those ancient deceits - the four tables of estimated annual expenses - still maintain their posts of duty in the catalogue, representing with invariable exactness from year to year, not the state of things which is, but the state which should be. The entire catalogue has a prosperous look, and indicates gratifying growth and improvement for the university...
...that uphill business in his future. And no one will deny that, as a rule, men who rise in the world do so by the uphill road. As for the professors, men so learned as to inspire awe and reverence for so much knowledge, they do not look as if they had occupied luxurious suites of rooms in their college days. One room, with bare floor, a chair, table, and pegs in the wall for clothes, is more likely to have been their lodgings. How much time and money did they spend over aesthetic decorations and the extravagance of spreading...
...eyed wanderer haunts the classic shades of Harvard, looking out upon the world with a dreamy eye of listless melancholy. For years I have seen him stand, day after day, at certain hours, upon the curbing or near the fence hard by some well frequented thoroughfare, and gaze - gaze with an unutterable yearning in his countenance and such a hopeless expression of resigned patience in his look that many times I have been tempted to stop and commiserate the sorrows of this noble unfortunate. Cold conventionality has held me back. And I have asked with Homer...