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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...suggestion of Professor Norton in regard to a memorial to Phillips Brooks in the form of a library and a reading room for Harvard is worth serious consideration, for such a memorial would be of infinitesimal value to the University. The need of a new library and a reading room is a crying one, growing more and more obvious every year and long ago reaching a point where some action must be taken. Gove Hall has long since ceased to be satisfactory; it is built upon a poor model and is too small to hold our increasing library, while...
...educational classes are well under way although there is still need of an instructor in penmanship and of a man who will give a course in political economy on Saturday evenings. Volunteers for these two courses will please send their names to 32 Hollis...
...certainly fitting that the memorial of him should perpetuate more than his mere name. There can be no doubt of the need of the proposed building, or of the good it can do if it is used as it should be. It will become-like the similar building at Yale-the permanent centre for the whole religions life of the University. So to associate it with Phillips Brooks would be a help towards keeping this religious life what his whole teaching and personal influence went so far to make it,-unselfish and genuine and thoroughly manly. And there...
...insist next fall on our playing upon the same terms with which she meets Princeton, Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania; in other words that she will dictate the conditions under which Harvard shall play. Whatever motives Yale may have had in putting through these new restrictions, no one need have any fears on the above score. The rule which is quoted was passed as an amendment to the Constitution of the Intercollegiate Association and hence is not applicable to Harvard, as the agreement between Harvard and Yale relates only to the Playing Rules of the Association...
...Appleton Chapel could not but be impressed with the teachings of a man who is thoroughly independent in thought and action, who has the courage of his convictions and the spirit to declare them openly. Dr. Parkhust discussed no new practical theories of life but he emphasized forcibly the need to carry the same ideals and earnestness and devotion to Truth into every profession which are so especially expected of the worker in the profession of the Ministry. The courageous remarks of a man who has taken the public stand that he has the last year are especially valuable...