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...favor; but, rather, the heavier the odds against her, the greater ought to be her efforts. There is a feeling among outsiders that Harvard is lacking in grit to rise to great emergencies. An ill-founded belief we believe it to be, and yet it is undoubtedly a wide-spread one. Much can be done now to refute...
...last few years the reputation of the school has spread greatly, as is shown by the fact that for the first time in its history two Harvard graduates are studying there for the degree of S. D. It is desired that this reputation should in future become still more wide-spread...
...debating societies. One question would be discussed each month, the remaining meetings of the different societies being disposed of as they should severally see fit. By such a simultaneous discussion a great demand for information would be created, and, if the topics were of questions of the day, wide-spread public interest would be aroused. This fact, leading publications in the country fully realize. The North American Review stands ready to give space for an article on both sides of the questions each month. The Arena and Public Opinion are also ready to take hold of the matter...
...society in the past has sent many emigrants from the southern states to Liberia, and there is at present such a wide-spread interest among the Negroes in colonization that the society is trying to gain friends who will aid in transporting those who wish to become citizens of the republic on the west coast of Africa...
...into the most hidden things. There is a vein through all his writings which gives evidence of an extensive reading knowledge and high culture. His humor, pathos and marvelous power of description made him a popular writer and secured for him the fame which returns from an extensive and wide-spread circulation of his works...