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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...HARVARD and its Surroundings," the illustrated guide book to the university which has been out of print for months past, will appear again next week, enlarged and thoroughly revised. This is the well known book by Moses King...
Referring to a department of the college in which I am more closely interested - you all doubtless know that compulsory morning prayers have been abolished during the past year, as compulsory church-attendance had been some time before. I do not see how we could have disregarded the movement which was set on foot - a practically unanimous movement; since 900 names were attached to the petition requesting the change, - and not a movement begun in haste and dictated by the whim of the moment; for the agitation upon the subject among the young men in college has been going...
...every respect the Harvard of today is better than was the Harvard of the past. And therefore we feel that its prosperity is merited. We regret only that the proportion of students in attendance from the West is not larger than it is, although of course it is a tribute to the college that the nearer people are to it and the better they know it, the more strongly do they believe in it and trust it. The President the other day called our attention to the fact that in the present freshman class there are only three from Chicago...
...announced that over a hundred past members of the Glee Club will sing with the choir in the morning services at Appleton Chapel during the Anniversary...
...chance for the "growlers" to come forward with their dismal croakings predicting the defeat of their own team. The work done by the freshman team so far shows clearly that it is one of the best that has entered college in some time. For a year or two past, freshman teams have been wont to look upon the Exeter game with a certain awe, but only a few years back Exeter was often defeated by the freshmen, and why should this not be repeated again this year? The Exeter eleven is lighter than it has been in several years...