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...Washburn in memory of her son, Philip Washburn '82, is new this year. It will be awarded for the best thesis on a historical subject written by a successful candidate for honors in History or Political Science. The Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship in Greek Studies and the South End House Fellowship appears in the catalogue for the first time. A traveling fellowship in Botany for 1900-1901 is announced. Four Edward Austin Fellowships for graduates are offered to take the place of the Morgan Fellowships, now discontinued. The Scholarship of the Harvard Club of St. Louis, also for graduates, with...
...board running track is now laid on Holmes Field with the exception of a few planks. Work on the engineering building has forced the track to be placed at the west end of the field instead of the east end where it has formerly been...
...Simon Peter:" -- About these two words are twined the suggestive memories of a wonderful life, a life full of stress and storm and change but firm and victorious in the end. There comes before one the picture of Simon, the Galilean fisherman, fickle and untrue, known among the sailors of the lake as a man in whom no sure confidence could be placed. Again there rises before one the scene on that day when Christ first met the humble fisherman and gave to the weak Simon the name of Peter,--that is to say at last the old fickleness...
...more and more stubborn unwillingness to concede anything whatever to the outside opponents of their system. But no success attended the efforts of the Southerners, in the fifties, to improve and extend their industrial system without changing it. The actual process by which slavery was in the end overthrown was in fact quite foreign to the purposes of the avowed abolitionists. They contributed to the result only by exciting the North, not by devising any plan of action and getting the North to adopt...
...secession became at once the foremost subject of discussion. So perfect was the unanimity and solidity of the people, that within a hundred days from the election of Lincoln they were seated in the provisional congress of a new government. Masters so long, they were masterful to the end...