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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish to call attention again to a suggestion made in this column a few days ago that debating interests might be placed upon a stronger basis by the organization of class clubs. There is to begin with a very real need of some sort of stimulus. Those who have worked in the clubs are agreed upon this point-that a better use might be made of the interest in debating which already exists, to say nothing of expanding that interest...
There seems to be an unfortunate failing, a sort of blindness which suggests mental weakness, that takes a firm grip on large numbers of Freshmen every year. They have to be told upon all possible occasions where they can do most to benefit themselves, and there is no end to the necessity of prodding them on to do things which they ought to have sense enough to do of their own accord. If there is one thing which can put a new man at Harvard in the way of making friends with his classmates and can give him a dignified...
President Eliot, the first speaker, said in substance: For forty-eight years I have watched the stream of men who have passed through this College and I will try to tell you what sort of man seems to promise the most happiness and serviceableness to himself and to his fellow men. He must have first of all have a body available for the uses of life. This is not indispensable but it is a good sound sign of a promising career. The power of strenuous application, of assiduous mental labor, I count the next in importance...
Following out the movement started several years ago, to present to the University some sort of memorial of Bishop Brooks' religious work at Harvard, the committee who were placed in charge of the matter have urged the work along very successfully and have recently received most attractive and excellent plans for the memorial building which is to be called "Brooks House." These plans which were drawn by Mr. A. W. Langfellow are now in the hands of the Corporation who will probably approve them soon. It is not likely that ground will be broken this fall, but it now seems...
...said of the Apostles that they overthrew the existing social conditions, but what they really did was to change the relations between religion and material interests. We need reformers of this sort, who will see to it that religion is not placed below business, and that the social order is not inverted...