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Hampton Institute is situated on a point of land in the Chesyeake Bay. It was there that the cargoes of slaves were landed and the place where the Indian was first baptized. General Armstrong who was in command of some negro troops at his place during the war, afterwards thought what a grand work could be done with the colored race at that place. A few years later the Institute was founded and Mr. Armstrong was at its head...
...especially to them that such a result will prove beneficial. Thus there will be an improvement in composition not only of college candidates, but, broader still, of all grammar school graduates. And it is this broad and humane view of the subject that must affect all alike and should command the attention of students and schools and colleges, in order that this important subject of English rhetoric and composition may be discussed and steps taken for its improvement...
Religion with its simple command from God "give me thy soul" invariably gives liberty. The religious man ceases to worry about little trouble - his whole nature feels centred in one great interest and there is no room for worry. Professor Peabody then made an appeal to the students to begin before the cares of the year really come, to take an interest in religious matters and in the exercises of the chapel...
...dining room and library at the rear of the first floor command a magnificent view of the river. The greater part of the fourth floor is devoted to a billiard room...
When a man comes to Harvard and enrolls himself as a Harvard student, he takes upon himself the responsibility of keeping up the good name of the University. This is no empty or nominal responsibility, but an absolute command of honor that where a man is in any position to pose as a representative of Harvard he must behave himself like a Harvard gentleman. This all important principle was thrown aside yesterday in a way that is more than likely to do a great deal of harm to the University. The men who made such a disgraceful spectacle of themselves...