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...been suggested that instead of drawing on our rather slender financial resources, the students at Harvard be asked to give a year's subscription to the following periodicals: Life $4.50, Judge $4.25, Puck's Library $1.00, Munsey's $1.00, Godey's $1.00, Strand $1.00, Black Cat 50 cents, Harper's Weekly $3.45, Illustrated American $3.45, Metropolitan $1.00, Ladies' Home Journal $1.00, Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper $3.45, Scientific American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fishermen's Reading Room. | 2/12/1897 | See Source »

...first in '94 and '95-it is of prime importance that all who know the moves should enter. The result of this year's contest is particularly doubtful, inasmuch as Columbia, Princeton and Yale will all have strong teams. And Harvard's chances are from the present outlook pretty slender unless new players appear, especially from the incoming class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chess Tournament. | 10/8/1896 | See Source »

...throughout the visible creation, the conjecture of an animating principle that gives to the sunset its splendors, its passion to the storm, to cloud and wind their sympathy of form and movement, that sustains the faith of the crag in its forlorn endurance, and of the harebell in the slender security of its stem, may inspire or soothe, console or fortify, the man whose physical and mental fibre is so sensitive that, like the spectroscope, it can both feel and record these impalpable impulses and impressions, these impersonal vibrations of identity between the fragmentary life that is in himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Criticism of Wordsworth. | 4/27/1894 | See Source »

...becomes foreign. Book is Saxon, but a number of books collected together, as could only be done by the wealthy, becomes a library. The weapons of the scholar-pen, ink, paper-all point to foreign origin, and one of them carries us back to the papyrus that waved its slender stems over the little river of Syracuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragments from the Lectures of Professor Lowell. | 4/20/1894 | See Source »

...necessity of making sure and ample provision, in the new Association, for men of slender means, is readily explained. The Foxcroft Club has wholly out-grown its present quarters, and will probably be obliged to vacate them be fore long I firmly believe that at the Opening of the next academic year there will be four hundred of our students demanding privileges such as the Foxcroft Club alone offers. There is no intention of taking away the Foxcroft Club's rooms, and giving it no standing in the hall. To do so would be grossly unjust to a large body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 4/28/1893 | See Source »

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