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John L. Sibley, nineteenth century librarian of the College and author of the noted "Harvard Graduates," writes in his diary on July 28, 1874, ". . . quite a sharp controversy with some persons who are trying to dissuade the H's from letting their son come to Harvard University. The real but concealed objection being the religious sentiments there. Some people said that the Institution was sectarian and that its principle purpose was to make Unitarians, who were worse than Infidels as they do not come out and proclaim their creed...
...Godkin Lectures are given annually in memory of the late Edwin L. Godkin, who founded the Nation magazine and edited the New York Evening Post in the nineteenth century...
...collection of skeletons was far too tempting and the building too easily plundered. Midnight raids and subsequent wall displays of skulls and thigh bones became a mid-century tradition. The notorious Med. Fac. has been traced back to these raids. This addition to undergraduate nihilism rounded out Holden's nineteenth century innovations...
...infrequently; music for two bassoons practically never. Yet an entire literature exists for the "bass oboe"- as it is sometimes called-both solo and in ensemble. As Sunday night's program indicated, the great wealth of such music lies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; evidently it was the nineteenth that bannished bassoons from the recital stage to the Stygian regions of the orchestra...
...student new skills hat are not grounded in the easy subjectivism of an "interpretive" course. But most important of all, the alleged art-historical esotericism of the middle level courses seems still to have attracted a creditable number of enthusiasts beyond the 25 Harvard concentrators. "Art of the Nineteenth Century" and "Architecture of the Americas" were well enough attended last term to demand the large downstairs lecture room in the Fogg Museum; more obscure fields like "Mediaeval Art" and "Italian Painting of the Fifteenth Century" had gatherings large enough to be scheduled in the ample upstairs lecture room...