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...style of living set by the large majority of students who come from wealthy or well-to do families is such that unless the poorer students live in much better style than the $500 limit, they will be very uncomfortable. In fact there is an aristocratic, moneyed atmosphere about Harvard which is very uncongenial...
...tend to destroy the good relations at present existing between faculty and students, while they will be found wholly inadequate to remedy evils here existing in reality far from their source. We are loth to believe that a want of gentlemanliness is so far encouraged at Harvard that the poorer students are compelled by the force of public opinion either to incur expenses beyond their means, or to lose caste among their fellows. It is necessary to the welfare of the university that young men of few resources can here gain an education, and any reasonable improvements, which shall prove...
...storm lost everything except the cloths she had on, this is a most terrible accident, this Library in which were so many valuable Books ancient manuscripts, the Labour of the Learned, and the work of ages, in a few hours turned to ashes. Our College is now poorer than any on the Continent - we are all real mourners on this occasion and I doubt not your attachment to alma mater will make you feel sorrowful upon this conflagration. . . . . . "The President's house was in great danger the wind was strong at the west the latter part of the time...
...attain a college degree, without sufficient means to accomplish their purpose, and he was ever ready to give any assistance in his power to such students. A fund of $20,000 was given by him to Phillips Academy for the purpose of founding scholarships for the support of the poorer students...
...death of John Langdon Sibley, Librarian Emeritus, we feel that the college has met with a well-nigh irreparable loss. Not only his services in the position which he so ably filled have entitled him to the gratitude of Harvard, but his noble interest in the work of the poorer students, and the assistance which he stood ever ready to render them, have endeared him to the students of a former generation, and have secured him the respect of the undergraduates...