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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...laid out. The many charity organizations of Boston eagerly welcome any aid from Harvard students. In order to make more plain the line of work thus opened, the Hon. Robert Treat Paine, president of the Boston Associated Charities had consented to describe the method of that organization. Mr. Paine said that the great problem which the Associated Charites had tried to solve was how to utilize the spare moments which busy men and women can give to the service of fellow beings less fortunately situated. It is the object of the association to send in to every family in distress...
...introducing his subject Dr. Peabody said he had a few remarks to make upon the injurious effects of intoxicating drink. I myself, he said, am not an extremist in abstinence, but believe that every one should direct his own course according to the dictates of his own conscience...
...their lives are not what they would be were they total abstainers: Strong drinks are in themselves hurtful, and lead to other associaions, the most important of which is gambling. Also they are apt to be mixed with poisonous adulterations which graduall ruin the system. In conclusion Dr. Peabody said: You are all in the way of peril and temptation. Do your utmost to shun it and make it your life purpose in all things to choose the better course that you may be fully prepared for service when you go to a higher home...
...Woods, vice-president. For the office of secretary there were three candidates, J. W. Lund, E. Sturgis and H. H. Hunnewell. Mr. Lund was elected. Mr. C. L. Crehore was reelected captain of the crew, and Mr. McKean was elected captain of the nine. After these elections Captain Cumnock said a few words about class elevens and games and offered the rules governing their management, which have already been adopted by the other classes. They were unanimously adopted. Mr. E. S. Jones resigned from the position of captain of the tug-of-war team and Mr. N. R. George...
President G. Stanley Hall then read his inaugural address, in the course of which he said that, as business is absorbing more of the talent and energy of the world, so science is pervading literature, philosophy, and every branch of culture. The university should be strong where science is highly developed and should pay less attention to those departments of knowledge which have not reached the scientific stage. Our characteristic word should be concentration; we have selected a group of five departments and shall focus all our means and care to make these the best possible. The more advanced...