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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...into many schools and colleges. Publications on subjects ranging from sociology to botany show the unconservative spirit of the University. And the uniform excellence of the productions reflect credit on the authors, besides being an evidence of incalculable value on the advantages of the superior instruction which a student of Harvard possesses. This activity in writing points to a mild literary renaissance that, from the present favorable outlook, bids fair to continue...
...must do something to bring about a change. The faculty's position will prove untenable if we only assail it. The first necessity is some one to start the movement. The faculty will never raise their veto unless they are asked. Occasional editorials in college papers or hints in student assemblies have no weight. What is needed is an aroused public sentiment, such as will show itself in mass meetings and monster petitions. This course was what won our voluntary prayer system, and this course alone will unshackle our nine from its present disadvantages, so that it may meet Yale...
...interest is taken in base-ball at Williams this year, and in all probability the team will be the best that Williams has ever had. It is expected that the nine will take first place in the quadrangular league with Amherst. Dartmouth and Trinity. The practices of sending out student-preachers has been adopted at Williams. Every week delegations from the college hold services in the neighboring villages. Snow shoeing is a very popular sport. Large parties go out every Wednesday and Saturday for a tramp on the deep snow of the Berkshire Hills. A great deal of interest...
...leaned toward theism. Our great teachers at Harvard have been great theists, and no doubt Gray was greatly influenced by his companions. The theistic form of evolution seems never to have disturbed Asa Gray's faith. I wish to say that through his whole life Asa Gray was a student of theology; but Darwin said he had no time for studying religious truths. Gray observed Sunday; Darwin did not. As to the growth of the soul in old age these men stand in great contrast. Darwin was a mighty river, but ran on one side of the island and could...
...Greek vase paintings in their relation to the Homeric poems and the later epics. The literary side and the artistic side of the subject will be treated hand in hand, in a way that cannot fail to be of value to the scholar and of interest to the general student. The lectures will be open to the public...