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Divinity School Chapel was crowded fairly to over flowing, last evening, with an audience that had assembled to hear one of the most remarkable addresses that has been heard for a long while at Harvard. Professor Norton said that the United States presents a spectacle never before seen in the history of the world-of sixty million people at peace and without fear. He spoke of the unparalleled growth in wealth and material resources which has marked this century of American life. To get wealth, much that is equally valuable and far more noble has been sacrificed. Fame, renown...
There has been formed in Boston an organization for playing foot-ball according to Association rules. Enough players to form two elevens have been heard from, and the name of Boston Rovers has been decided on. Many of the members have had considerable practice on English teams and have played at Oxford and Cambridge Universities...
...maddening. I cannot see what business he had to look into the book in the first place; in the second place he should have learnt by this time that mere politeness required gentlemen to control their merriment-when loss of control is out of place and ungentlemanly. I have heard so many complaints on this subject that, a sufferer myself, I thought I would call your attention...
...have heard nothing lately in regard to rowing Columbia, except a casual expression of the general belief that it is inexpedient for Harvard to continue rowing a hard four-mile race, which serves only to exhaust the men for the contest with Yale. Consequently it is likely that the race will be rowed as heretofore, and the chances of defeating Yale are to be lessened materially. Can nothing be done...
...faculty to withhold information. When the faculty decided to make the freshman courses elective, the corporation and overseers, in their opinion, had to decide the matter. A member of the faculty handed the scheme to a reporter, and the measure was nearly lost, because those two bodies first heard about it through a newspaper. Many things are rightly done when good reasons cannot be given, and duty to an offender often demands secrecy in cases of discipline. To make a proper public opinion, every man should determine to believe only what is credible, and should cultivate moderation in expression, with...