Word: manly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There will be a trial of candidates for the Harvard Glee Club on Wednesday, October 2, and Friday, October 4, at 7.30 p. m., sharp. Every man who can sing at all should come and try for the club. First basses and first tenors are needed especially. The trials will be held in Roberts Hall, Brattle...
...students are supposed to be within college limits at that time. There are other restrictions that are designed to keep the members of the university more or less in check. At Harvard, no such strictness of discipline prevails. The students are given a wider liberty, and each man is thereby thrown upon his own responsibility. The effects of the two systems are, of course, widely different. The discipline of Oxford inspires in the men a respect for authority and a reverence for the college officials, and develops in them a fine sense of courtesy. On the other hand it seems...
...Each captain shall make a canvass of every man in his class at the beginning of the term and get out all good material...
...lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory last evening, to hear him speak to the members of the freshman class on the privileges and responsibilities of the life of which they have become a part. President Eliot was received with a great deal of enthusiasm. He said that every man who enters Harvard becomes a part of a noble, historical society; that if he approaches the life in the proper spirit he cannot think of self only. He has a part to play in an organization, the common honor to sustain; he should, therefore, think of the life here...
...moral side of life, he declared to be the most important of all. If the elaborate training men receive here does not result in the improvement of character the training is worthless. He appealed earnestly to every man in the class to do all in his power to purify and elevate college opinion. Here, support of the Chapel system is one of the most important elements of that responsibility, and President Eliot's closing remarks were devoted to this subject...