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...universities in this country. However, none of these universities has established institutions comparable to those of Oxford and Cambridge, which universities have won special fame by the publication of many scholarly books. To do the work of these Presses is the purpose of the new Harvard foundation, which will redound to the credit of the University and advance the general cause of learning...
...another college in the land where it would be necessary to make such appeals in order to secure the clubs a good support. The fact that each year it seems to be necessary to urge the students to show at least a fairly patriotic spirit towards them does not redound at all to our credit. In a university of the standing of Harvard, a large attendance at these concerts ought to be given as a matter of course,-if merely on account of the musical excellence that is always shown at them. We trust that this strange lethargy which seems...
...pleasant to learn of the continued success of the American School ol of Classical Studies at Athens, in the foundation of which Harvard took so prominent a part. Any such contribution to disinterested scholarship and investigation on the part of America cannot but redound to the credit of the whole nation as well as the promoters of the enterprise...
...meant utter ruin to the institution, whose interest they have at heart, decided if possible to overlook the wrongs which they have received at the hands of the faculty, and make amends for their act of disobedience by submitting the following apology under protest, all of which seems to redound far more to the credit of the seniors than of the faculty: "We the undersigned members of the senior class, while we feel that our request was a reasonable one, and while we deny the charge of willful combination, yet feeling a deep interest in the welfare of the college...
...nation we do also for every other institution of superior education. You can see how it has been in this city with regard to the work of Harvard men in education here. When a small group of the younger men have established in this city good preparatory schools, they redound to the credit not only of Harvard, but of every other college which is fed by them. And when we establish in Cambridge a true American university, when by your loving help that shall be at last created, for our children, if not for ourselves, you will have rendered...