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...seems to be run in a very peculiar and jerky manner, sometimes awaking from its usual state of lethargy and astonishing the college by its activity and then relapsing into quiet. Now is certainly one of the times when an immediate and hasty awakening is necessary. Let either a general meeting be called or a conference of the stewards and other officers to set a date for a tournament to settle who shall go to Hartford. After the brilliant record made during the summer by several Harvard men, and one in particular, it would seem as if the college ought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/27/1884 | See Source »

This fall the statue of Harvard which General Bridge offered to present to the college will be erected on the delta to the west of Memorial Hall. General Bridge presented the statue of his ancestor Josiah Bridge to Cambridge not long ago and within a short time these two statutes of early settlers in the colony will stand in close proximity. The sculptor who has been selected to execute the design is a young man of promise, Mr. D. C. French, who has already modeled some well known figures, among them the "Minute Man" at Concord, Mass., and a bust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Statue. | 9/26/1884 | See Source »

After the close of the exercise at Sanders the usual class meetings were held in appointed rooms in the yard, and the general meeting of the alumni was called at Harvard Hall at 1 p. m. with the president, William G. Russell, presiding. Rev. Phillips Brooks was elected president for the ensuing year and Arthur B. Silsbee treasurer of the college fund. Some other business was transacted and the meeting then adjourned. Next in order was the annual dinner, and at 2.30 the procession was formed in front of Massachusetts Hall Headed by a band graduates in front. Headed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commencement Day, June 25, 1884. | 8/25/1884 | See Source »

...work all that is necessary for a study of his author. Prof. Jebb's purpose, as stated in his preface, is to show fully how the work of Sophocles is understood by him, both in its larger aspects and at every particular point, and also to induce educated readers generally to read for themselves the works of the greatest tragedy writer of Athens. For this purpose is introduced the special feature of this edition and the one that will do most to make it is value to the general student,-the translation on the page opposite the text...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROF. JEBBS' NEW SOPHOCLES. | 6/19/1884 | See Source »

...Education by one of the sub-commissioners who has recently visited the educational institutions and industrial establishments of this country and Canada. The commissioner speaks, at the outset, of the pre-eminence of Americans in many branches of mechanical industry, and he makes this a reason for giving a general view of the character and scope of our public schools, as well as of the special provisions for industrial training. He was particularly impressed by the fact that there is not a school or college in the country in which may not be found the sons and daughters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/17/1884 | See Source »