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...individual members which are wanted. Fortunately the evils of neglect or forgetfulness fall, in this case, only upon the heads of those men who are delinquent. But each man, even if forgetful of the trouble which any neglect of his causes the committee, will find it for his own interest to have his pictures done by Class Day, as after that time many things take up hi satiation and he will not care to be hurrying round and hunting up the photo graphs, or delaying his stay in Cambridge to have his orders filled. Till the spring recess is only...
Professor Shaler delivered an intensely interesting lecture last evening to a full audience. So distinct, he said, are the fields of work of the theologian and the naturalist, that he had with difficulty found a topic of common interest-the Evolution of Altruism. Sympathy, the basis of altruism, seems a very natural thing, yet it is hard to explain. The lecturer asked his hearers to assume that man is descended from the lower animals in his body, and in some at least of his mental faculties. He then traced the gradations of altruistic qualities (those which are not based...
...bringing into pleasant social relations members of the different classes who come from the same state, so that when the four years are completed and the students have returned to their native states, they will be bound more closely together by their former friendship, and will feel a greater interest in the home alumni associations. The Harvard Club at San Francisco, which greatly outnumbers the Yale club in that city, is doing its utmost to induce the young men of California who desire a university training, to choose Harvard as the place most adapted to their needs. A glance...
...proposed that such a vote be made in this country, and our desire to compare Harvard's choice with that of the body of readers of the country led us to ask the lists to be sent to us. It certainly seems to be a matter that should interest Harvard men, if they are at all interested in general literature. As a proof that such an interest does exist, we hope that a large number will send in their lists at once. It certainly will not entail any great amount of trouble on any one but ourselves, and the result...
...form or limits of the proposed Academy. All we know of the plan is that forty living men of letters are required. That America will have an Academy of men of letters in the near future can hardly be doubted. It ought to be a subject of great interest to all intelligent people, and especially to Harvard men; because when the Academy is once founded, Harvard will surely furnish a fair share of its members...