Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...worst affected, many of the classes there mustering only about half their enrolled number. The dormitories of the academic department contain many cases of the distemper, but not to so great an extent as expected. The faculty are granting sick excuses almost without limit. It is thought that the epidemic is at its height in the university and that most of the sick students will resume recitations in two or three days...
Professor Hollis has thought it best to put into the building only what is needed at present. There is room for more machinery, which will be added from time to time as needed. The slowness of equipment has been occasioned by the difficulty of finding machinery suitable for experimental purposes...
...hand, where John Harvard died? Do they ever realize that British troops were quartered in Massachusetts and Harvard, that Washington probably visited those buildings many times, that Lafayette was received by President Kirkland on the steps of University? . . . Certainly much interest and charm, and much stimulus to high thought and noble life are lost to the students at Harvard who never wake to the fact that it is their privilege to pass three or four years amid scenes dignified by the recollection of great men. . . . The associations, many of them priceless, are here; is it not worth while to cultivate...
...committee thought that to erect and maintain such a memorial would require $300,000, of which $150,000 would be expended in the erection of the building and the remainder invested to pay the running expenses of the house. Owing to the hard times, when the committee was appointed, no formal appeal for subscriptions was made. Nevertheless voluntary subscriptions to the amount of $80,000 were received. As the times have been improving very slowly the committee has not yet made its appeal, but will probably make it soon...
...Fennessy '96 has resigned the capaincy of the 'varsity crew, but will continue to row. As the make-up of the crew must be uncertain for some time to come, it has been thought best to postpone the electing of a permanent captain until May. J. R. Bullard '96 has been chosen to act as temporary captain in the meantime...