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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Christian Association's reading room at "T" Wharf will be conducted this year on an entirely new plan. The men who have agreed to aid in the work have been divided into squads, one of which will be in attendance at the reading room every day. Musical entertainments will be given, probably on alternate Saturday evenings, beginning the latter part of next month. In addition to the musical part of the programme, addresses will probably be made by members of the Faculty...
...annual reception to new students took place last night in Sander Theatre. A number of invited guests were present, chiefly members of the Faculty and men prominent in the various College activities. Professor Wendell, as Chairman of the Reception Committee, presided, and introduced the five speakers. In a brief introductory speech he enumerated the organized lines of activity at Harvard, through which new members of the University can meet other men with similar tastes...
President Eliot, who spoke first, said in part: The men who have come here for the first time have joined a body of men, twenty thousand strong, some living, some dead, but all making themselves equally heard. Yet in joining the College, they incidentally become members of one of its smaller groups; in fact the group, in the choice of subjects, rather than the particular class joined, is largely to determine the kind of men with whom they become most intimate. By this principle of subdivision the large college is distinguished from the small college. President Garfield once remarked that...
...unemotional, he may not discover until later the strong under-current working for good. Religion indeed, is neither an obligation nor a duty, but the most solemn privilege of a mature man's life. This year, the new comer, if he accepts the privilege, may hear five distinguished men of five different denominations. They come to him not only as preachers but as wise, trustworthy friends, rewarded simply by the consciousness of their usefulness. He is here also at a time when the work of all the religious societies is for the first time united in the Phillips Brooks House...
Professor Baker then spoke briefly on the literary activities of the College. He warned the new men, on the one hand, against impatience in writing and neglect of technique; and on the other hand, against feeling discouraged over temporary failure. His closing remarks dealt with the value of debating as a help to men desirous of forming intellectual friendships...