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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...administration, paying special attention to the notable manner in which Hayes averted the panics following close after the Civil War. Hayes took the presidential chair only after a bitter struggle with Tilden, and with the reputation of being the only president who ever entered upon that office with the word "Fraud" stamped on his forehead. His struggles with the Senate and with the members of his cabinet, in trying to put an end to the panic that was causing so many strikes throughout the country, were hard-fought and discouraging. Before his administration had ended, however...
...University built on broad and free lines, we have long since outgrown. Such things have their place in various undergraduate communities where the college as a wholly unique social species is uppermost in the minds of all, and where the atmosphere is best described by the very word "college." We congratulate the University and as undergraduates congratulate ourselves that this pernicious institution has been permanently laid on the shelf...
...review of Professor Lowell's "Government of England" is the second article. The author summarizes the impression made by the volumes in the one word "magistrale." Under the heading "From a Graduate's Window," is a short sketch. "The Humors of the Quinquennial" in which the peculiar relations of the many, and the numbers of the most common names, are brought to light...
...already announced, the Northfield Conference will be held at East-Northfield, Mass., beginning June 26 and ending July 5. All men who are planning to attend should leave word at Phillips Brooks House immediately. It is hoped that the University may have a large delegation this year, as already between 40 and 50 men are planning to be present. Sufficient tents, furnished and holding four men each, have been engaged for the Harvard delegation, so that there may be a united Harvard camp. The expenses, including a program fee of five dollars, amount to about $20 for the full time...
Matter is conditioned by space and time; direct sensory consciousness is equally so conditioned. The space and time relations to matter may be summed up in one word--separateness; those of consciousness in the opposite term--unity. Consciousness has no dimensions; it includes the universe itself, and self is co-extensive with the universe. Each man therefore carries in himself the conditions and limitations of his own universe. To expand away from the material means spiritual growth; to contract towards it means spiritual deterioration...