Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conducted in the Well's Memorial Building, 987 Washington St., Boston, by Joseph Lee, Harvard '83. The next talk will be held Saturday, March 16, at 7.30. Mr. William Minot, Jr., will be the principal speaker, and his subject will be "The practical advantages of putting all taxes on real estate." After the opening talk the remainder of the evening will be given to questions and free discussion. All members of the University at all interested in economic or social questions are cordially invited to attend...
...only verse of this number is "A Game of the Nineteenth Century." It is an 5musing adaptation of a game of cards to real life, and is far more readable than many ambitious attempts at poetry. The Book Reviews of this number of the Advocate are short The "Advocate's Brief" would be more valuable if it had been continued to a later date, instead of ending with February...
...that which flourishes least in the atmosphere of Harvard is hypocrisy; of all habits the most detested is cant." The article contains several random daily themes, which show the frank attitude of the student toward the instructor. Written by one who has obtained such a thorough insight into the real life at Harvard as Mr. Wendall, the article is a welcome defence of the college from the malicions attacks of superficial observers...
...very different demands but, after all, their aim is the same. Forming. as they do, the strongest incentive to literary work, they are coming to see that their power in the future must depend largely upon their unity. The apparent rivalry between them has always been more fancied than real. That phase of college journalism by which one paper makes capital by carping at another is past. At Harvard, the papers have learned to rely upon themselves and confine their comments upon their contemporaries to friendly and usually straightforward criticisms. The proposed dinner is a rational outcome of the tendency...
...following bill in substance is now before the Massachusetts legislature: The President and fellows of Harvard College may accept. take and hold, and may sell at their discretion, unless expressly forbidden by the terms of the gift, any real estate, within or without Commonwealth, which has been, or may hereafter be, given or devised to them for educational purposes...