Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cambridgeport or half way between central square and Harvard square. To this plan we wished to call attention, as it was very evident that such an arrangement would do the college district a practical injury. The first plan was undesirable chiefly for sentimental reasons. The second one demanded perhaps still more careful attention, because its results would be exceedingly practical. The time of delivery of mails would be affected, as we pointed out before, and in other ways the College would feel the change materially...
...advice given last night, we can not but emphasize to each of the newcomers the necessity of choosing some line of undergraduate activity and sticking to it until he can accomplish something for the common good. The opportunities are endless. For those who can not be athletes there are still debating, the college papers, and many other fields, where individual effort betters not alone the individual but also the college itself. And in this unselfish effort, this work side by side with others working for the same end, lies one of the grandest broadening influences of Harvard University...
...necessary in human life. It does, however, ignore the dissensions that have marred its fair face. Preachers do not come here to contradict each other, but to unite in large and great aims, to give a dignified and fundamental presentation of religion to young men whose minds are still in solution and whose aims are still unfixed. We do not address you as sectarians or agnostics, but as human beings. If you have unbelief let your unbelief be a reverent, charitable, loving unbelief, and do not be offended if people take it for religion. Religion is just that abiding...
...their team in as large numbers as was at first promised. When there are only two or three freshmen on the 'Varsity squad and it is to a man's advantage in every way to come out and try for his class team, and, what is more important still, when the athletic reputation of the class is at stake, there is absolutely no reason why every Freshman who is physically able to play football should not be on Soldiers Field every afternoon. That the squad is not as large as it could and ought to be is quite evident. Furthermore...
...meeting of Boston graduates held ten days ago at the University Club, the following committee of five were appointed to take immediate steps toward raising the $25,000 still necessary for field improvements, the total cost of which is estimated at $47,000, about $22,000 being already available for use: Prof. Alexander Agassiz '55, A. P. Garner '88, Prof. Hollis, C. F. Adams, 3d, '88, S. D. Warren '75. A large item will be the cost...