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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :-I read with great interest your editorial on the advisability of forming a photographic society, and would like to give, in a few words, my opinion on the matter. There are several uses for such a club. You have mentioned the social gain due to the interchange of opinions on the many difficult questions that so often arise. For photography is no child's play, whatever may be said or written on the subject. But the chief advantage to be gained here in Harvard by such a club is that, should there be enough money...
...Princeton by Prof. Sloane. There were also present Messrs. DePeyster and Ludlow, of New York. The first duty before the committee was to pass resolutions on the death of Prof. Packard, who was acting director, prior to the directorship of the present incumbent. After this a report was read from Prof. Van Benscohoten, which was exceedingly favorable and showed the growing success of the school. He stated that the library now contained 2,000 volumes of valuable works relating to classical study. All the leading archaeological journals are received at the school and the advantages of the library are thrown...
...cannot be otherwise than gratifying to read the following, from the Yale News, concerning the failure of their freshman eleven to fulfil the engagement to play our own team last Saturday. "Our freshman foot ball team have not covered themselves with glory in their negotiations with Harvard this fall. The facts of the case are these. It seems that at a class meeting it was decided to play Harvard last Saturday. This decision was, however, distasteful to their men on the eleven, who on this account declared that they would not play. And upon this the captain of the team...
...Droppers read an essay on Wm. Ellis at the Finance Club on Tuesday Evening...
...Harvard, it is probable that no college library presents so few inducements to its patronage by the students, or is comparatively so little used as the library of our Alma Mater. While we hear ever louder and yet more loud the alarming cry that the students do not read are not using the library, do not enter the Hall even, the great underlying evil, which is the aggressive centre of the disastrous situation remains untouched. We cannot hope for success say by untiring, ceaseless and unsparing agitation. The library at present offers no inducements whatever to the students at large...