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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perhaps, of recent growth among our institutions of higher learning - a feeling which cannot but bear good fruit in the future. Although the membership of the institute has increased largely throughout the country during the past year, and now approaches three hundred, a further increase is desired to render possible the most energetic prosecution of its work...
...Sloane Kennedy. Moses King, Cambridge, Mass., Publisher." Of the many books that have been offered as biographies of the late Henry W. Longfellow, in our modest opinion, the best has come from the press of Moses King, of the class of '81. It is no small task to render pleasant and entertaining the history of the life of such a man as Longfellow. His career can hardly be called an eventful one; he passed the most of his days in quiet and peace, "within the shade of his own fig tree." The many blessings that fortune had given him enabled...
...study; a thorough examination to pass from year to year, and an equally stringent examination for the degree. This is the way to make a learned profession really learned; and as lawyers are often regarded as necessary evils (pace HOOKER), it is a matter of high public concern to render them as innocuous as possible. The immediate call is for the library. A good beginning is shown in securing $40,000 for its endowment, and a little effort and generosity upon the part of the sons of Harvard in New York, who know the value and economy of sound...
...from signing during the past few days from the uncertainty of the time of the class races and from various other minor reasons. Saturday is the best possible time that could have been selected, as it is the evening of University Day and sufficiently distant from any examinations to render uncomfortable those who may desire to attend. We have no doubt that a large number of men will sign in the meantime, so as to render unnecessary any further postponement...
...selecting their courses, which are afterwards regretted, and would have probably been prevented had they had access to good information and advice upon the subject. We know, of course, that it is written that "members of the faculty will be ready at any time to render assistance in this regard;" but it is notoriously the case, nevertheless, that comparatively few men do ever secure the advice of a professor at all in arranging their general course...