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...Fitch, each emphasizing what to him is most significant in a College man's religion. President Lowell put the stress on the infinity of purpose, influence are responsibility, and what these things should mean to the man who seeking the firmest foundation. Just as the captain of a vessel is responsible for the lives of others and is distrusted if he admits incompetency, so are all men responsible for the lives of others, not only in their own generation but in an unknown and infinite posterity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHASES OF THE STUDENT CREED | 12/9/1913 | See Source »

...students of 1798 "were obliged to go to the kitchen door (of Commons) with their bowls or pitchers for their suppers, where they received their modicum of milk or chocolate in their vessel, held in one hand, and their piece of bread in the other, and repaired to their rooms to take solitary repast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD IN FORMER TIMES | 10/15/1913 | See Source »

According to a dispatch from Nome, Alaska, the vessel which John E. Thayer '85, of Lancaster and Boston, sent into the Arctic three years ago to secure specimens for the University and for Mr. Thayer's museum, has been lost, and is a total wreck on the shores of Siberia. Captain John Koren, however, who is leading the expedition, gave the further information that the material which the expedition had secured, has been preserved in Siberia, and that the only loss sustained was that of the vessel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS OF THAYER EXPEDITION | 4/4/1913 | See Source »

...vessel left Tacoma, Wash., April 26, 1910, manned by Captain Koren and three other white men, who were later reinforced by two Eskimos. The expedition was for the purpose of gathering zoological, botanical, and natural history specimens in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. It visited the islands off the coast of Alaska, the Behring Sea, and the Arctic Ocean. No lives were lost in the wreck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS OF THAYER EXPEDITION | 4/4/1913 | See Source »

...once. As the supplement containing the result of the canvass is to go to press at noon, no letters received after the 11 o'clock morning delivery can be incorporated in the list. HARVARD MEN IN EUROPE 1. Members of party 2. Bankers 3. Date of sailing and vessel 4. Landing place 5. Probable itinerary with dates 6. Place and date of departure

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All Travellers' Blanks Due at 11 | 6/21/1911 | See Source »

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