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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reported that three members of the last year's class at Harvard agreed upon graduation-day to exchange telegrams at midnight-Cambridge time-Christmas Eve; as one is in Europe one in New York, and one in Japan, the result was rather unique...
...desire to call attention to an editorial which recently appeared in the Advocate in regard to the unsatisfactory arrangements for hot and cold water in the shower bath at the gymnasium. From time to time complaints of this nature have been made but hitherto with no result. As the shower bath is so constantly in demand, any trouble in its arrangements for using the water must necessarily annoy a large number of students. We hope the authorities at the gymnasium will turn their attention to these complaints and endeavor to remedy the trouble as soon as possible...
...admitting that the world is worse off the older it gets. It is the business of the true culture to point out the landmarks that verify progress, to add to the experience of the individual the experience of the race, to prove that no effort is possible without its result-and no result possible without effort; to send the young man out into life equipped to make a place in it, and with faith which shall never grow old that whatsoever of good, however humble, he puts into the world shall abide in it forever. That there are college weaklings...
...much in serving, and often tiring themselves out, and weakening their returns. The service is becoming less important in the single game every day, and a great number of the best players invariably give their opponents the service in preference to serving themselves. Nine cases out of ten the result justifies them...
...thus far been deemed impracticable to allow the books to be taken away from the building, and consequently a large reading room was indispensable. Mr. Van Brunt, of Boston, who had the advantage of experience in remodeling the Harvard library building, was employed as the architect, and the result is probably in many respects the most interesting university library building in the country. The predominant feature of it is the semi-circular reading-room. This room is admirably lighted by a continuous row of twenty-two windows near the ceiling. The reading desks are ranged in semi-circular lines...