Word: says
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...give us merely the chiseled image of some heroic man agitated by one mighty passion, but rather to display the forces that are struggling in all men; to overawe us with the ghost of our own past and our own future, so that we may truly say: The world is passing in review...
...recent decision of the President and Fellows in regard to voluntary attendance at prayers, shows that this policy still lacks something of completeness; and we hope that the next annual report will be devoted to an historical review of the progress in religious discipline for sixty years-say from 1826, when the study of Hebrew, from being prescribed, became optional. This seems already necessary in order to justify an alarming innovation in the Divinity School, where also the pxan of freedom is sounded by President Eliot. The Dean of the school calls special attention to the fact that "marks...
...lectures. Men who climb to such a height as the top of the Museum, expect to get above the regions of intense heat; but in these expectations they are terribly disappointed. A temperature of eighty or ninety degrees, Farenheit, is too hot for the natural continuance of life, to say nothing of the gaining of profit from a lecture. In view of these facts, then, cannot more attention be given hereafter to the proper ventilation and cooling of the N. H. 4 lecture room-a room that is resorted to by one of the largest sections in college...
...CRIMSON has seen fit to "carry the war into Africa," by making the assertion that I am "inaccurate and misleading in one of my most important statements." Let us see how far this will bear investigation: I said, "I think I am right when I say that more money is spent yearly on the Yale crew than on the Harvard crew." Not having the figures at hand to prove this assertion, I was very careful to qualify it so that it should carry no more weight than is ordinarily accorded to an expression of opinion or belief. I rested...
...would say to the writer of the communication in "Newspaper Clippings," published this morning, that the authorities are considering some plan for carrying out this important scheme, which has been advocated by several correspondents in our columns, of cutting out, and indexing newspaper articles. President Eliot, who is now on a trip south, intends to visit Johns Hopkins University, and study the methods in vogue there, with the idea of putting some such plan into operation at Harvard...