Word: older
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Professor Alexander .V G. Allen, of the Episcopal Theological Seminary here in Cambridge, addressed a large number of students in Sever 11 last evening on "General Reading as an Element in Education." In the older days, education was broad and general; now everyone and everything tends towards specialism. General culture must be the result of self imposed labours if it is to be had at all and certainly no one can be considered well educated unless he possess a general knowledge of literature. General reading leads to individuality and original work; it ministers more directly to personality. The late Thomas...
...true that of the older men, the graduates of Yale outnumber those from Harvard here in New York; but very soon after the accession of President Eliot, Harvard ceased to be a "local college," and since 1875 has drawn her students as widely from the different states as any other college, and the new influence has been especially marked in New York...
...those little things which keep up a warm feeling for the college There is little enough college tradition now to connect the present students with those who have gone before them. "Fair Harvard" can do a good deal, but not everything, and the fostering of some more of the older songs of the college will do much towards keeping alive a feeling of veneration for the traditions of the old University...
Passages of Scripture were read by Dr. Peabody and Dr. Lawrence offered prayer. Between the readings the Chapel choir rendered the following selections: Anthem, "The Lord is My Shepherd" and the hymn, "Hark! Hark My Soul." There was also a solo from the Burial Service. Many of the older members of the Faculty attended the funeral and sat in a body in the front seats to the right of the aisle...
...freshman nine. The men are all going into the work with a good deal of spirit. In the class crews the enthusiasm as shown by the number of men, seems to follow a law of inverse proportion to the order of the classes. This is only natural, as the older a class gets, the better the rowing material becomes known; the new men get more and more weeded out, and the places in the boat become more settled. This decreasing ratio does not by any means show a decrease of real enthusiasm nor does it mean that there is less...