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...annual Senior picnic has been and gone. Yesterday morning a noble body of 325 Seniors separated themselves from their studious tasks and wended their way to Nantasket, where the festive day was celebrated with great rejoicing. Amid the curses of all Cambridge a noisy drum and a squeaky horn traversed the streets of our noble city and awoke its sleepy inhabitants. There was no question in the minds of all, but that the Seniors were loose for the day. After some weird and wonderful music by this voluntary band, Kanrich's bunch of tunemurderers arrived in the Yard and were...
...would be impossible to state in detail the numerous incidents that made the day eventful and enjoyable. Not until the rain and the darkness turned the thoughts of the studious homeward did the sea-worthy crew of the "King Philip" up anchor and away...
...author goes on to say: "The figures go far to show that the Harvard undergraduate is not the arrant idler he is sometimes supposed to be. On the other hand, they cannot be said to lend much support to the belief that he is more studious than his predecessor of twenty-five years ago. . . . The fact seems to be that the undergraduate studies about as much now as the undergraduate of his father's time studied." The working time of the present ordinary undergraduate could be increased, but the boy does not go to college merely to study. The public...
Whereas, by his manly bearing, kindly disposition, studious search for truth, and his loyalty to the high ideals of the moral life-the qualities of a genuine religious nature, he had enshrined himself in the esteem and affection of his professors and fellow students at Harvard University as well as at the Meadville Theological School...
...achievement which comes to most of you after many years of toil. This is an influential and powerful society which you have joined, and in this society you share in the hopes and in the honor of the other members. We welcome you to this body of studious and devoted men, and also to something more, to a place more bound up with the traditions of learning and science than any other in America. You have come here for an education. It is an interesting question what do you expect this education to do for you? There is an almost...