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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...favorable reception given to "Harvard by an Oxonian." If an account of the University by a stranger has proved so acceptable, how much greater would be the interest in a course of lectures by some of the men who have themselves seen Harvard as she was in the old times, and have lived in constant and intimate association with her history and traditions. Such men, and there are plenty of them, could give us some account not only of historical occurrences, but of the college life itself...
...Yard is the "Rebellion Tree," or why it was so called? How many of us are aware that Lafayette was received by President Kirkland on the steps of University Hall? What do we know of the life of the Harvard student in colonial times, of the old college customs and exercises, of the part Harvard actually played in the Revolution? Does the fact that British soldiers were quartered in Harvard and Massachusetts mean nothing to us? What do we know of the later life of the college, of its gradual growth, of the great men who passed four years...
...probably sure. With it may be expected a constant improvement in the mental ability of the student; for the lessening age will be significant not of haste in the preparatory, but of intelligent thoroughness in the elementary, school. In some future time the freshman seventeen years old will be better educated, a more advanced scholar, than he of nineteen is today...
...spring the different branches of athletics are beginning to take a prominent place. The baseball team has been practising regularly on the diamond, and two games have been played, in which many of the new men were tried at the different positions. The only two positions not filled by old men are short-stop and centre field, and as there are quite a number of candidates for these, the final make-up of the team has not yet been decided. The team will not go to the training table until after the Southern trip during the Easter vacation. A second...
Specimens of ancient manuscripts and of very old books will be shown...