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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...title to be changed to "university," a name to which it certainly has an undoubted right. Therefore in view of the gratifying progress which this rival 'university' of the future has made in the past few years, no pains ought to be spared by the able committee into whose hands the management of the celebration has been entrusted to make the coming birthday memorable in the history of the college. We who now have just completed our days of feasting and gratulation watch with interest the progress of our arrival in her rejoicings and wonder whether in the short time...
...Ernest W. Shurtleff, a former member of this university, editions of whose poems have been published by the "Old Corner Bookstore," and Lothrop & Co., of Boston, and E. P. Dutton of New York, all meeting with success, was initiated as an honorary member of the Signet on Friday evening. He read an admirable historical poem, entitled, Judas Maccabus, which was awarded a prize last year at Andover Theological Seminary. Mr. Shurtleff is one of the contributors to "Songs of Harvard...
...knowledge of the working system of our universisy. Most of us are able to explain the nature of the various courses of instruction, and to make clear the requirements for a degree. Beyond this the knowledge of only a very few men extends. That spirit of harmony of interests, whose loss is being so much deplored at Harvard, would be in great measure revived if men turned their attention toward the true nature of the advance and development of the institution that is doing so much to shape their minds and their characters. The same duty that drives the citizen...
...president's report should be a part of every college man's library, and not be placed among those books whose leaves remain uncut...
...study have been extended to include nearly everything at first found only in the scientific school, in accordance with what is vaguely termed the 'spirit of the age;' but it should be recognized that this spirit has been strongly guided by just such institutions as the Lawrence school, whose graduates include a large number of prominent and influential men. If success is to be measured by the share taken in the labor of bringing neglected studies into their proper position, the liberality of Abbott Lawrence and James Lawrence has been successful even beyond their hopes...