Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discussion over the proposed change of location of Columbia is extremely interestingto Harvard men. Columbia College, or the School of Arts, as it is termed, is being choked by the great city which surrounds it, while the metropolitan environment appears to be the principal reason for the strength of the professional schools of the university. The question is then whether the college shall be abolished and the entire energy of the institution devoted to the university organization proper or an attempt be made to reorganize after the plan of Harvard...
...growth is of course sought in the general summary of students. The gain in the University proper has already been stated as slightly under 400. But from the fact that many of the summer courses can now be counted toward the A. B. degree there is very good reason for reckoning the students in these courses into the total. If this be done, the total number of students enrolled so far this year is 3021 against a total of 2550 (?) last year in the University proper and the Summer School. The most interesting part of this whole gain...
Every good thing has its share of influence which may be small and quite unnoticed by itself, but let a man associate with great books and thoughts and the sum of many single changes in his character will be plainly seen. There is no reason for discouragement because we seem to move slowly even with the hardest and truest work. Every good thing that comes may be depended upon absolutely to give some of its own beauty to the soul it touches. And if we think as little as possible about their influence but give our energy to keeping these...
Certainly the clubs have good reason to congratulate themselves upon a concert assuredly the best of late years. The Glee Club is in an especially excellent condition and in spite of the warm reception they met last year on the Christmas trip, they cannot fail this year to make even a better impression...
...services are to be undertaken again this winter, and appeal to Harvard men to assist again in the singing. It is to be hoped that they will receive an encouraging response These theatre services have been very successful in reaching a non-church going crowd and for this reason in particular have been a good thing. Much of their attractiveness, and consequently of their success, depends upon the singing. Harvard men have always been sufficiently interested in the meetings before to furnish a very respectable contingent for the chorus. The same interest should be shown this year; and in order...