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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chestnut' from Yale. "Against the wonderful Harvard team, substantially the same as last year, and Princeton, with Bickham as pitcher, our chances for first place are certainly disheartening. The encouraging features seem to be that the men are hard workers and have not the over-confidence which has so often ruined our athletics." - Yale News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/21/1886 | See Source »

...give any decided impression. Mr. C. T. Semper's study of George Eliot's "Silas Marner" is of a different tone from anything the Monthly has ever published, and because of the very variety is offers is good reading. The study is even philosophical, without the heaviness that so often goes with philosophy; and deep, without the oppressiveness of depth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 4/21/1886 | See Source »

...athletics than the athletes themselves, we stand corrected, or if it feels competent to dictate as to college custom and precedent, we will succumb. And in the second place, if differences of usage on the mere name of an athletic organization can possibly be compared with inaccurate, ridiculous and often even irritating reports about individual students comprising that and many other organizations, then we will doubly humiliate ourselves. But as the case is now, we think the Spirit has no cause but a quibble, and no just reason at all for its remarks. Any one who reads the press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/17/1886 | See Source »

...head. This man recovered. Experiments on animals show that cutting out certain parts of the brain will produce paralysis of certain parts of the body. Disease, strong emotions, fear, grief, will also produce paralysis. The wonderful and inexplicable action of the will is thus stopped. The mind often produces pain or disease by simply concentrating attention on certain parts of the body. A criminal once died from imagining that he was bleeding to death. Brain diseases are the cause of great mortality, especially among children. In all exposure a man should keep up courage, and not let his imagination overcome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Farnham's Lecture. | 4/15/1886 | See Source »

...part we already have that recognition, but it is our desire to make the daily paper of Harvard useful to instructors and students alike. We cannot, however, make it so in any high degree, unless we have willing and constant support from both. Members of our faculty have often used our columns; a few of them have regularly done so. We would gladly have this use general...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/14/1886 | See Source »

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