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...club; and the older societies and clubs, though their influence has steadily improved, are sometimes believed to promote the formation of cliques. At best, they cannot be thoroughly democratic. The Harvard Union is a club to which every member of the University is welcome on the payment of a small admission fee. . . . . Even now, after an existence of a few weeks, it has aroused such united enthusiasm as the University has never known; and it cannot fail now and always to promote the best kind of democracy...
...uniform defeat; yet, on the whole, the number of preliminary candidates increased substantially. The year 1899 was a year of victory; but no increase in the number of preliminary candidates took place. The column headed Final Candidates exhibits a similar result -- declining fortune for Harvard is followed twice by small losses and thrice by good gains, and rising fortune is followed once by a small loss, twice by small gains, and once by a large gain. The last four columns of the table permit a comparison between the entering classes at Harvard and those at Yale. In 1893 defeats...
This evening the candidates for the team will be coached by Mr. James Bowker '96 and Mr. S. Cabot of the B. A. A., who will assist in selecting a small squad of the most promising men to practice three times a week...
...first floor there will be several small recitation rooms and one large lecture hall, seating 400 students. The rest of the floor will be taken up by a philosophical library, comprising, in addition to the regular text books, an extensive collection of philosophical works. The second story will contain a few small recitation rooms and several seminary rooms for advanced work. About one-half of this floor will be turned over to the educational and sociological departments. The entire third floor will be used for a psychological laboratory. There will be one large room where work of a general character...
...week or so ago, or who heard the applause which met Mr. Hammond's allusion to Majuba Hill Monday night. The question then suggests itself, cannot these feelings be made to count for something? Is there no way in which we can make some contribution, even though it be small, to the cause of these heroic Dutch...