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...Harvard, Mayor-elect Hart, and Rev. John G. Brooks, who has addressed many previous college conference meetings, and who will address the next one. After dinner an interesting essay on "Creeds considered as an obstruction to the progress of religion" was read by Mr. Edward Atkinson, the principal guest of the evening. Rev. Dr. Peabody made a short address, and after a few other speeches the meeting adjourned...
Prof. G. P. Fisher of Yale University was the guest of President Eliot during his stay in Cambridge...
Very few students and a large number of Cambridge school-children composed the audience that heard Dr. Fewkes lecture on "Star-Fishes and Sea-Urchins," last evening. Mr. Nolen, the guest of the Natural History Society, introduced Dr. Fewkes, and stated that he was glad to welcome so many young people, for the policy of the society always had been to interest the young in Natural History...
...Harvard Association of Western New York gave their annual dinner last Saturday evening in Buffalo. President Eliot, who had been a guest of the Chicago Harvard Club on the 9th, and who was then on his way to Washington, was present and spoke. Referring to college athletics, President Eliot said he approved of intercollegiate contests within reasonable limits, but he would like to see the number of matches restricted and freshman matches done away with. Freshmen have not been long enough under college discipline, and they have not learned sufficient self-restraint to indulge in these exciting competitions with impunity...
...that the song, "Fair Harvard," was composed in one of the rooms in the building now occupied by the Harvard Annex. The author, Samuel Gilman, belonged to the class of 1811, and while in Cambridge at his class reunion in 1836 he wrote "Fair Harvard." He was then the guest of Miss Fay - a niece by marriage - who owned the building on the corner of Mason and Garden streets. While her guest, Mr. Gilman, occupied the room over the parlor on the right looking out upon Shepherd Memorial Church, and it was here that he composed his famous verses. Since...