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...CRIMSON can hardly afford space for the publishing of all the wills and other documents that bear upon John Harvard's history. Of them all, however, probably the most interesting and the most valuable is that of Mrs. Harvard, or more properly, of Mrs. Katherine Rogers (Harvard) (Elletson) Yearwood. She makes reference to "my eldest sonne John Harvard Clarke," and to property received from her former husband, John Elletson. These references with her name, as it appears at the end, give indisputable evidence of her three marriages. The following, the closing sentences of the will, is represented here as accurately...
...official college bulletins and calendars, society notices and announcements by athletic managers, it will be to every student a necessity, and in urging you to subscribe, we feel that we are asking no favor, but simply placing in your hands that to be without which no student can afford...
...continued and increased success of the Memorial Hall Dining Association, the John Harvard statue, and the greater literary activity among the students and college papers afford a list of miscellaneous improvements which can only be mentioned here...
...have to enter later. This is the case with all institutions which bring together a large number of young men from all parts of the country. The very differences in the natures of the students are an advantageous feature of college life; the variety of human studies, which they afford, is valuable. Not only are there sectional differences, as in our own university we have men from the east, north, south, west, and far west; but also there are those other differences, resulting not so much from locality as from early bringing-up and surroundings. The rich and the poor...
...Such men, even though well qualified from a scientific point of view, will not be likely to desire membership, unless they see the society is an earnest and interested body of workers, reaping decided advantages from the opportunities for co-operation and mutual benefit which such a society should afford in its particular department. During the year just passed, we have endeavored to take the first steps toward placing the society in this ideal position. May the future show that our labers for this end have not been quite in vain...