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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...affection and loyalty of college graduates towards their alma mater. There is no greater pleasure, perhaps, to the graduate of middle life, engrossed in the cares of business or professional life than these annual dinners, such as are now celebrated throughout New England. It is a noteworthy sign of the great interest taken in higher education that so many eminent men should attend these gatherings, and should discuss so earnestly and thoroughly the great questions of the day in collegiate methods of instruction. While a dinner of Harvard alumni would be an impossibility in the vicinity of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/4/1887 | See Source »

...continual sending in of communications in regard to the proposed University Club is a good sign in itself. It shows that, if, as some writers claim, there are defects in Harvard's social institutions, the students have at last thought the matter over with care, and have original thoughts to express whenever the question is agitated. The question is one with many bearings. There is a great deal to be said on both sides, and no sensible conclusion can be arrived at without the fullest discussion. We would like thoughtful opinions from all the different standpoints of college life, from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/2/1887 | See Source »

...manner incapable of record. Nevertheless, it is a pleasant fact that the 1358 persons authorized to borrow books from the library carried home 44 books apiece on the average during the year 1885-86, and that this use of the library is increasing. The librarian reports another very agreeable sign of college progress which he mentions that, whereas in 1874-75 only 57 percent of the undergraduates used the library at at all, now nearly 90 per cent use it. The library has lately received large bequests, the income of which will amount to some $20,000, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer. | 1/26/1887 | See Source »

...which cause a smile every time they are read in the CRIMSON. They are so well worn and old that we have been even accused of inserting them regularly whenever there was a lack of fresh ideas to supply the mighty engines of our brains. This is a hopeful sign. It indicates that old Harvard is such a perfect college that there exist only two or three imperfections to make its perfections felt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/22/1887 | See Source »

...ladies' programmes for the junior prominade at Yale are something entirely novel. They are made of "ivory" cloth, with the words "Yale '88,' in gold letters on the face. In the left hand corner there are delicate little sketches, each card having one of a different d sign, painted in oil by hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/21/1887 | See Source »

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