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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor C. C. Everett spoke last evening at Appleton Chapel on the tones of mind which may be called cosmopolitan and provincial. The person who lives in the city is so used to a crowd that he is free from all selfconsciousness of manner, so used to the sight of misery that he is callous to it, so used to vice that he ignores it. This kind of man may make a good historian or a good philosopher because he has a perfectly fair frame of mind. Provincial people on the other hand are unused to the jar and noise...
...Peabody spoke last night on our coming obstacles, physical, mental and moral. There are thres ways of dealing with an obstacle; to struggle with it unsuccessfully, to crawl around it meanly, or to surmount it. The exercise of surmounting obstacles gives to a person a mental and physical exhilaration which is lasting and ennobling. In a physical sense, after surmounting an obstacle, there may be a descent, but mentally and morally there is never descent. Many great men owe some of their strength to the obstacles they had to overcome. There are enough difficulties in the way of every human...
...every year in the figures published in the Dean's annual report concerning the changes in the personnel of the successive college classes. Thus in October, 1888, it appears from the Dean's statistics for the year 1888-89, that the freshman, sophomore and junior classes numbered together 825 persons, and that of this number 87 left college at or before the end of the year, and 42 were dropped to a lower class. In other words, it appears that one person in nine failed to maintain his place in college. The majority of those who leave altogether withdraw voluntarily...
...examination and 22 were rejected. Thus one in seven of the candidates failed of admission. The impression which is evidently prevalent that the college is an easy one to stay in is shown to be erroneous by the number of men dropped or withdrawing during the year. One person in nine failed to maintain his place in college because he either was dropped or left voluntarily. "The department of German, French, and Political Economy were strengthened in the spring of 1888-89 by new appointments and promotions." Reference is made to the new regulations presented by the overseers and adopted...
...There will be a meeting of candidates for the 'Varsity nine at the trophy room in the gymnasium, Thursday evening, February 6, 1890, at 7.30 o'clock. All base ball players are requested to be present. Any person who knows of the presence in the university of baseball players, not already brought to notice will confer a great favor by informing the captain of the nine. The hearty co-operation of everybody interested in the success of Harvard baseball is cordially asked...