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...communication appeared in your columns some time ago complaining of the poor ventilation and close air in Lower Massachusetts during the periods of History 13. For a time, good results followed the appearance of that complaint, but at present there is no poorer air in any recitation room than in Lower Massachusetts during the time it is used for History...
...worship and the opportunities and advantages for students in the means afforded for intercourse with the prominent men of all denominations. Dr. Walcott confined himself to the medical side of student life. A reference which he made to the poor gymnastic equipment of his day, whieh was supplemented by poorer shefls that managed, nevertheless, to beat Yale, was loudly applauded...
...their bread. Many a man, almost despairing in the struggle, has taken heart at a gift that came he knew not whence. "I must do this, at least," the giver says, "but my name must not be known." And many a poor man has helped his fellow, poorer than himself. For these things those who know and love Harvard believe in her-for these things that the world knows not of. Nor does it see, perhaps because it does not care to look, the strong current of honest, clean right living, the search for truth, the endeavor to develop...
...plenty? The chief incentive to such a man would be the honor gained, and there are higher honors open to the scholar than those which are called scholarships. If the scholarships were open to those men who had plenty of money, it would be hardly fair to the poorer students. A rich man would feel when he won a scholarship that the money would far better have gone to some equally deserving though less fortunate fellow students...
...greatly reduces expense.- (a) It would reduce the strain upon our poorer students.- (b) It would enable many men to go to college who now can not afford...