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Dates: during 1873-1873
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In asserting that "of the six hundred undergraduates in Harvard College, the proportion who enjoy good classical music is much smaller than it should be, "the writer enunciates a truth, though it can hardly be considered startling in originality. Where are we to find any number of persons, in any...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC AT HARVARD COLLEGE. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

Every mind and every body has its maximum of energy; up to this point one can go with impunity, but to attempt further advance is to fail. As the machine lasts in proportion to the use or abuse of it, and as its power depends partly upon the care taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FESTINA LENTE. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

In these societies, as members, are included about one fourth of the Undergraduates. It would be difficult to find a community in the world at large where a like proportion were members of the churches. Furthermore, these societies employ methods of work very similar to those of the churches outside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RELIGION AT HARVARD. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

AMONG Bostonians a student passes for about what he is worth; at any rate, he gains nothing from merely being a student. This may be due to the fact that Boston, from having seen so many students in her day, has fathomed their nature; yet we are cautious in assigning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE REPUTATION. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

GENTLEMEN, - In an interesting notice of the Gray Engravings, in the last number of your paper, the writer referred to my proposed scheme of photographing the collection. His statements were, I believe, correct, excepting in one point which nearly concerns the publishers; and for their sake I make this correction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAY COLLECTION. | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

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