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...opening voluntary by Mr. Locke, Dr. Hale made the introductory prayer and read the xci. Psalm. The Rev. Mr. Gordon then delivered a short sermon, taking as his text, "Seek and Ye Shall Find." A portion of the speaker's remarks were substantially as follows: "Many men come near certain moral truths in the course of their lives, but because they are not in search of these truths they slip by unheeded. It is of inestimable importance we learn early in life to develop our faculties for seeking only what is good. But it is necessary to devote our youth...
...small portion of your space for the purpose of recording the discovery of an autograph of John Harvard, and also of his brother Thomas, of whom I believe no other writing has been found. The brothers, as is known, held certain property by lease from the Hospital of St. Katharine, near the Tower of London. Communications were, therefore, opened with the present authorities of the Hospital, by whom they were very kindly received, and a thorough search of the very numerous monuments of the hospital was made by direction of Sir Arnold White, the Chapter Clerk of St. Katharine...
...Unquestionably the lists indicate a lamentable narrowness of view and a disposition to direct the study of English literature into certain rigidly-confined channels. Shakespeare, Scott and Goldsmith-these are great names, but to have an adequate acquaintance with English literature one must know the works of many other writers. A great educational institution ought to direct the attention of its students to Milton, for example, and to Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Thackeray, Dickens, Pope, Dryden, Sterne, Burton, and some dozens besides...
...short distance every day, besides doing general gymnasium work, using chest-weights, dumb-bells and Indian clubs. Until very recently there was a disposition on the part of the upper-classmen to monopolize the cage, but it is expected arrangements will soon be made to secure it at certain hours for batting practice. In addition to this the men will practice throwing in Lincoln Rink. In comparing the respective merits of the Yale freshman candidates and Harvard candidates, one cannot help but be impressed with the weakness of our men. From present developments the freshmen here are decidedly inferior...
...last century prior to the French revolution. Its boldness of thought and language startled the whole world. While reading it, Kant, the sage of Koenigsberg, was so fascinated that, for the first time, he forgot the walk which he had been in the habit of taking at a certain hour every day of his life. Through his labors gymnastics ceased to be the stock-in-trade of clowns and acrobats and assumed their wonted dignity and importance...