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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bound edition of the CRIMSON anniversary issues will be ready for sale to-day. The records of the interesting events of the past week are well worthy of as permanent a form as printed matter can give them. This we have attempted to do, in having our issues brought together and bound. We trust that the collection will prove popular and satisfactory to the students and become a valuable souvenir of Harvard's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary...
...appear in the course of a week or two. It is a very different matter to compile such a pamphlet of valuable information as the Index contains, whose chief interest lies in the fact that it comprises a brief of all the athletic events which took place during the past year, together with an authentic list of all the members of the various college societies. In obtaining these names, however, much necessary trouble is experienced, as the secretaries of the different associations are very backward in sending them in. This should be done as soon as possible, as the editors...
...join the majority?" It is not strange that the spirit of Yale should prove more congenial to young men reared on the breezy plains of the great West, but when an attempt is made to force that spirit into schools composed of young men who have in the past shown a wise depreciation of it, some comment and even criticism, ought to be made. We fear that worn-out shells and the opportunity of receiving "odds" will prove inducement enough to some young men to don the blue, but we sincerely trust that if unbecoming proselyting is to be done...
...Creighton spoke as follows: It is most proper that so close upon the celebration of the past few days that the students at Harvard should call to mind some of the more important of Harvard's predecessors in England and on the Continent. The old abbeys and monasteries were the foundations of the present universities, but these centres of learning had but little permanence. The best scholars did not long remain in one place, but became travelling teachers. We must trace then, how these men began to co-operate in the prosecution of their studies, and how thereby they formed...
...know that English blood flows in the veins of those who live at this University." [Applause.] "I feel it is your wish for me to communicate to the Masters and Fellows of Emmanuel College the most cordial greetings from Harvard to express the hope that the associations of the past may be deepened, strengthened and made more dear in coming time." With hearty applause showing a full accord with Professor Norton's words the audience broke...