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...Toynbee Hall in London, or the Rivington Street settlement in New York. But in order to accomplish this result or to attain any permanent success it must have the hearty and enthusiastic support of the University. It needs money, and still more it needs men. Already the undertaking has grown too large to be carried on by those at present actively interested. The amount of time required of each worker is not large. If a number of men can give a single hour a week it will be of great assistance. The work is of a nature closely connected with...
...Interscholastic Athletic Association has grown very rapidly since its organization two years ago. At that time several Harvard graduates and undergraduates went to work, and lent their efforts towards forming the association. They offered a prize to be competed for, and the standard of general athletics at the schools has been much raised thereby. R. S. Hale '91, who was one of the originators of the scheme, is still one of its active supporters...
...operative has unlimited credit, owns its own stock, and has paid all bills due. Moreover the business has been constantly widening although it is not the aim of the society to compete for the patronage of people unconnected with the University. Not a little wholesale trade has grown up through orders from western colleges and schools for goods which the society is known to keep...
...case in which it is possible to combine both interests without detriment to either. The value of the collection as supplementing the living material of the Botanic Garden is very great, and it will in addition place before students immense numbers of very important plants which cannot be grown at the garden at all. It is intended to have represented, all of the families of the North American plants and the pricipal general; and all distinctively American plants and those from other countries which illustrate important botanical facts or principles. Indeed its value for botanical instruction cannot be over estimated...
...beginning of the Christianera, the Greek philosophy had grown to be extremely practical. The school of philosophers taught self-command and discipline. Its aim was personal culture. A writer on that school, Epictetus made a great point of the effect that philosophy produced on a man. The other element of the philosophy, the religious element, was beautifully set forth in the writings of Seneca. His doctrines were that God was a friend and a loving father to all. Even the most miserable of men felt God's munificence. Man was a living sluine of God. This was a very sublime...