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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Bicycle Club," President F. W. White, '85. "The Brown University Bicycle Club," Mr. Thurber. "Past Members," Mr. Morrison, '83. "Associate Members," Mr. Bradford, '86. "The Annex," Mr. Hobbs, '85. "Class of '85," Mr. W. W. Winslow. "Class of '86," Mr. Lyman. "Class of '87," Mr. Robbins. "Class of '88," Mr. Sullivan. "The Summons Boy," Mr. Frye, '86. "U. 5," Mr. Mason, '86. "Music," Mr. Perkins, '87. "The New Members," Mr. Appleton, '87. Interspersed with the toasts were songs by a quartette composed of Messers. Mason, '86, Winslow, '85, Harrison, '86, and Perkins...
During the past year, Dartmouth has erected a Library, and a Chapel at a cost of $90,000. The library will hold 165,000 volumes...
...interesting to watch the students as they gather. The lecture never begins before a quarter past the hour, and during that time the students straggle in, one by one. Each has an enameled cloth or leather pocket, in which he carries his papers and books for taking notes. He leisurely hangs up his hat and coat, spreads out his papers, and takes from his pocket an inkstand and a common steel pen. The blackened desks and streaked floors give ample proof of the catastrophes that have overtaken these inkstands in times past. An American stylograph would be an untold blessing...
...suggested, either seriously or sarcastically, that there be compiled in one or two volumes a collection of "Notes and Comments on famous Works of History and Fiction in the Harvard University Library,"-the basis of the work to be the extremely brilliant and exquisite marginal notations that have in past years accumulated on the pages of the different works. Such a collection would doubtless meet with a great deal of favor-with as much favor, possibly, as the notes themselves in their present written form have met with. It is refreshing-to the reader (to him especially who aims...
...swayed by motives, and that they are apt to go where the strongest one drives them. What we want to know is this: could I with these same fixed motives have acted differently? Is my choice essentially independent not only of present circumstances, but also of my past circumstances and settled character; so that each act of my will is not a result from their union, but a new force, springing uncaused into existence,-an agent or factor in their union...