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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cheered its athletes upon all such occasions, I feel a right to direct your attention to your own lack of generosity and to express the hope that that sentiment is not the Harvard sentiment but only the immature sentiment of the writer. I do not care to discuss the various contests which certainly do not show it to be a disgrace for Harvard to have been tied by Yale, nor do I presume to criticise your judgment that a score against Pennsylvania is reason enough for the resumption...
...large, it has been impossible until the present time for any definite action to be taken. Before his death, the members of the Students' Committee thought seriously of erecting a building somewhere in the College Yard, for the purpose of extending the hospitality and co-operation of the various religious societies of the College. Phillips Brooks was greatly interested in this proposition and offered his services in whatever way he could do the most to materialize the project. Immediately after his death the project gradually developed into the present idea of erecting a "Phillips Brooks Hall," and now the University...
...will speak January 19 on French Political Life; Professor A. van Dael of M. I. T., who will address the club in February on Maupassant; and Rene Doumic, the well-known critic of the Revue des Deux-Mondes, who will give a series of eight lectures during March on various phases of French Romanticism...
...exercise of its function of directing individual effort along the most beneficial lines that the committee has proved most efficient. Those who have joined in the work have the satisfaction of knowing that they have brought credit on themselves, the committee and their University. Let their fellows who for various reasons can not or do not take an active part, lend the workers a pecuniary hand at least, for the most serious check on the committee is at present a lack of funds. Further progress should not be thus forbidden...
Besides thi, twenty-five men, divided into "Amusement Troupes," have cheered the poor and suffering in such institutions as the Cambridge Almshouse, the Boston Home for Incurables, and the Suffolk County Parental School. Groups of students engaged in managing various charitable enterprises like the Sailors' Reading Room, and the Riverside Mission, have found in Mr. Birtwell a friend and an adviser...