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...appointment of gentlemen of the university to receive subscriptions for the Longfellow Association, will give to all a convenient opportunity to lend their aid to the accomplishment of the commendable projects of the society...
...sincerely that the attempt to have a junior class dinner should have been so completely unsuccessful. The committee wisely made frequent postponements in the hope that finally sufficient enthusiasm might be scraped together to induce seventy-five men out of a class of over two hundred to lend their aid to bring about a reunion of the class; but the effort failed, to the discredit and injury, it must be confessed, of no one but the class...
...greatly relaxed, and our venerable eleemosynary and other institutions of learning are fast becoming the theatres of disorder and excess." This paper then makes the rather remarkable statement that "Harvard, Yale and others of our older colleges are compelled to rely upon the police and the courts to aid in maintaining order." It goes on to state that "the list of shocking disorders might be prolonged indefinitely, and its significance lies in the fact that college authorities seem totally unable to grapple with and subdue the demon of misrule." We think that a good, wholesome college, or even high school...
...appeal of the Longfellow Memorial Association for aid in erecting a suitable memorial to the dead poet in Cambridge, should meet with generous support from Harvard men. It is peculiarly fitting that they should do their full share in promoting the scheme. The memorial proposed is to be erected in Cambridge; the project is backed by the names of many of Harvard's most eminent graduates and professors, and finally Mr. Longfellow was at one time formally connected with the college as a teacher. We have no doubt the appeal will meet with a ready response from Harvard's present...
...Yale Association of Colorado have raised a considerable fund to aid studious youths from that State in acquiring an education at Yale College. The boys in the Denver high school have been told that the association will gladly pay the tuition of any of them who may go to Yale, and that to those deserving and needing it some other assistance may be given. [N. H. Union...