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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...described-indeed in so large a community of young men it would be strange if there was not. The almost entire freedom from restraint at Harvard, and the prestige of Harvard connections, have attracted a large number of social and worldly papillons from New York and Chicago society, whose lavish expenditures and dissolute living are no torious. Nevertheless, Cambridge is not a Capua or a Corinth, as Aleck Quest seems to paint it. Per contry, the moral tone of the students as a whole will bear comparison with that of any other body of students, with that of any other...
...examined by Dr. Sargent, had a physical development of over 675. That is higher than the best developed man in 1880, when the Hemenway gymnasium was opened. As this year is the tenth since the opening of the gymnasium, Dr. Sargent is preparing a list of all the men whose development is above 675, to show the work accomplished during the last decade. Already there are 225 men on the list, the highest average being between 1100 and 1200. In order to make this list as full as possible, Dr. Sargent wishes all men who can to offer themselves...
...announcement of the sudden death of Thomas Parker Sanborn, (A. B., 1886), will be sad news for the large number of friends who knew him during his college life, and the class of Eight-six will feel that it has indeed lost a member whose earlier years gave promise of a brilliant future...
...laid out on that portion of the Charles River embankment between Craigie's and the West Boston bridges. This feature is an open-air gymnasium, an affair unlike anything ever before attempted by a municipality. The plan is intended for the benefit of the working men, at whose command it will place the means for the improvement, development and exercise of the physical man. The whole plan is experimental, and its continuance will depend upon the manner in which the public takes to the idea...
...many leading men, upon whom a university might draw for its lecture rooms and council chambers. Moreover, Washington offers advantages for scientific research, which can be obtained in no other city in this country. The Smithsonian Institute, the National Museum, the great government Surveys, sundry Government commissions and bureaus, whose work is largely scientific, and many retired officers of the army and navy, who have interested themselves in scientific pursuits, all combine to lay strong foundations for scientific activity. Here are laboratories affording the most admirable opportunities for all kinds of advanced investigation. A university founded among such surroundings...