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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will be four suites to each landing except in the south entry, where there will be only three. The suite consists of a study and two bedrooms on either side. The comfort of the occupants will be greatly increased by having a small vestibule connecting the study with the main hall. The rooms are to be provided with open fireplaces and handsome hard wood mantels. The building will contain in all 52 rooms, accommodating 96 men, and will be fireproof throughout, the floors being supported by iron beams. No pains have been spared to make it one of the finest...
...opinion the majority in college is opposed to this new scheme on the ground that it does not meet entirely the needs of the university. Mr. Bolles' letter throws new light on the matter and clears up some of the objections which have been brougtht forward. But the main point as to whether a table d'hote and a la carte system can be worked together successfully, is not, we think, proven by the citation of gentlemen's clubs. there the scale of prices necessary to cover expenses, higher that could be introduced here advantage. It is a question...
...Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital which was begun at Dartmouth over two years ago will be dedicated May 3rd. The building has been completed at a cost of $150,000 and is said to be the finest of its kind in America. It consists of the main building 42 by 60 feet and two wings or pavilions. The operating theatre is thirty-four feet square and has accommodation for one hundred and twenty-five students. The building is surrounded by about fifteen acres of sloping fields and consequently has the best of sanitary conditions...
These, however, are only the minor difficulties. The great mass of men find themselves sometimes in life and most likely during the college life, to be upset upon the main doctrine they have been taught to believe. They lose their child like faith, and despair of ever regaining it. Then is a dark interlude and yet that interlude ought to come to every man, it is essential to real belief. As the old philosophers put it, we have position, opposition and composition. We doubt the doctrine, we find its contradictions and then we unite all once more and the truth...
...world has been done by Christianity, and America, in its politics, in its commerce sorely needs the influence of strong and right-minded men today. It is not that men who do not follow Christ are always sinful, but they are always wasteful. They live out of the main current of history. The grandest truths are not to be entrusted to the poorest specimens of manhood. They need and must have strong men. Harvard is to maintain her character for honor, manliness and Christianity, and the students who go from her are to put these truths into active and powerful...