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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although answers to the petition for electric lights have been received steadily during the past week, there is still a large number from whom nothing has been heard. Out of twelve hundred and fifty postal cards sent out with the petition, about one hundred remain unanswered. From the answers received, however, it is very easy to see the drift of college opinion, for only half-a-dozen men have expressed themselves as opposed to lighting the library. Every professor and instructor from whom we have heard is in favor of the petition, and two professors have had the kindness...
...upper Boylston with a seating capacity of two hundred, was thought to be amply large for the accommodation of any class which might enter the college for almost a half-century. That this opinion was not sound, has been shown by the way which the large classes of the past few years have been cramped for room. This year especially, it has been proved that the accommodations are utterly inadequate, and the need of more room has become too pressing to be disregarded. At present the largest room in Boylston is occupied by a collection of mineralogical specimens...
...well-dressed stranger has been trying to excite the sympathies of Harvard men during the past few days by uttering a story of wretchedness. He invariably wants "money to go to Canton." He is undoubtedly a crook and should be avoided...
...tardiness has taken a strong hold especially upon those who have lectures during the first hour and has proved such a source of annoyance to several of the professors as to cause them to adopt the practice of locking the doors of the lecture room at five minutes past nine...
...from the Revised Version the parable of the "Ten Talents." The lesson of this parable is that a man should adapt himself to circumstances. The demands made upon a man by modern life are, notwithstanding all its appliances and inventions, much more severe than at any time in the past. A man should, therefore, strengthen himself and try to do his duty. There is no excitement in a race unless the contestants are well matched, and the pleasure of success is always greater in proportion to the difficulties to be overcome. A kingdom of God that could be won without...