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WORCESTER, Jan. 15, 1901.-The Harvard team won its first college basketball game this evening, defeating Holy Cross by a score of 34 to 18. Harvard outplayed her opponent all through, and grew stronger as the game went on, scoring 14 goals in the first half and 20 in the second...
...boiler and engine for steam launch for the benefit of the Department of Engineering), 550.00 J. H. Gardiner (to be added to Francis James Child Memorial Fund),60.00 E. J. Wendell (toward furnishing Brooks House), 50.00 Henry L. Higginson (deficit of Chamber Concerts), 552.90 James A. Lowell, Edward W. Grew, Julian L. Coolidge, Randolph C. Grew (South End Fellowship), 400.00 George P. Gardner, 250.00 Charles Fairchild (new lantern for Geological Department), 250.00 A. C. Coolidge (credited to Library income), 41.00 Members of Government 6 (for purchase of books) 650.00 Percy L. Atherton (for benefit of Music Department...
...Whitney, the chairman of the American Republican College League committee in Washington, has sent to the presidents of the different American Colleges letters inviting their colleges to send representatives to take part in the inaugural parade on March 4. The plan grew out of a promise made last fall by Senator Hanna to give the Harvard Republican Club a place in the parade. At the meeting of the American Republican College League in December the suggestion was made to have all the college Republican clubs represented, and it was later decided to invite all college men, irrespective of party...
...historical beginnings of the theory of immortality were crude. In the primeval savage tribes, it existed in the belief in ghosts who more or less directly influenced the lives of mortal men. As the intellect of mankind developed through the ages, so this theory of immortality grew and became clearer,--showing itself in the religion of the Hebrews, the mythology of the Greeks, and reaching its culmination in Christianity...
...immediate danger to slavery, came in the triumph of cotton and slavery in the Mexican war, the Kansas Bill, and the partiality of the Supreme Court to the South. When at last it grew clearer that the slave labor could not compete on equal terms with free labor and that it was impossible to give salve labor a free chance in the territories, the theory of 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...