Word: subjectivity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...course of lectures on "Historic Harvard," such as was suggested in the communication to yesterday's CRIMSON, could not fail to be very popular. The interest which the undergraduate feels in this subject is shown by the favorable reception given to "Harvard by an Oxonian." If an account of the University by a stranger has proved so acceptable, how much greater would be the interest in a course of lectures by some of the men who have themselves seen Harvard as she was in the old times, and have lived in constant and intimate association with her history and traditions...
Several books on the subject have been reserved and will be found on the English VI shelf in the Library...
...short time we are here be made more full of association and sentiment. Can we not turn the present enthusiasm for lectures and lecturers to account? We do not need to go outside of Cambridge for the very men most suited for this task. What more pleasing and fruitful subject could a speaker choose than "Harvard in the Past"? If the History Department of the University or some college organization could arrange such a series of lectures they would incur, I believe, the lasting gratitude of the students, of the graduates, and of all friends of our Alma Mater...
...part of most Harvard students of the historic associations of the College. The writer suggested that steps be taken to arrange for a series of lectures treating of the part Harvard has played in colonial and later history. This letter unfortunately was received with no comment and the subject was dropped. The loss suffered by most of us in our lack of knowledge of the historic interest connected with even the various college buildings is much to be lamented. How many of us know which elm in the Yard is the "Rebellion Tree," or why it was so called...
...fourth lecture in the Natural History Society's course on the Natural History of New England will be given by Professor Goodale tonight at 8 o'clock in the Geological Lecture Hall of the University Museum. His subject will be the Vegetation of New England...