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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...writer in the Graduates' Magazine for December deplores the undergraduate's ignorance of the "venerable associations" which cluster around the University. "How many of the students" he asks, "know when Hollis and Stoughton, and Holworthy were built, or what the men did for whom they were named? . . . How many can tell, off-hand, where John Harvard died? Do they ever realize that British troops were quartered in Massachusetts and Harvard, that Washington probably visited those buildings many times, that Lafayette was received by President Kirkland on the steps of University? . . . Certainly much interest and charm, and much stimulus to high...
...writer says, however, "Youth naturally looks forward and not back;" and he exclaims: "How little is done to cultivate the historical sense of the students...
...suggestion made by the writer of the communication which we publish this morning is sensible and practicable. We hope that it may be carried...
Some such plan for a series of afternoon lectures as is advocated by the writer of the communication which we publish this morning would seem to be worthy of consideration. It is to a great extent true that the popular evening lectures are for all practical purposes open only to the college and the Cambridge public. The student who wishes to give his friends a glimpse of the activities of college life is at present offered few opportunities beyond the athletic games. What wonder that when so many people have come to Cambridge to see football or baseball games...
Robert Louis Stevenson was first heard of, Mr. Copeland said, through "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde," though a few had known him before as the author of "An Inland Voyage." He was a neoromantic writer and cared nothing for the affairs of the day. Mr. Stevenson was not a great novelist. This is attributable partly to the fact that he did not write of women or for women. Although women appear in his stories, it was not until "David Balfour" that he introduces a woman who interests us. To be a really great novelist, a writer must deal with more...