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...students a short list of questions, to be answered (in confidence), and returned. The only other way is to call on each student in person. Either plan will involve much trouble to those who conduct the canvass, and a degree of annoyance to the individual students; but the interest of the results will be an ample recom pense. The last canvass was in 1881, under charge of the board of editors of the Harvard Echo, the daily which preceded the HERALD-CRIMSON...
...meeting of the directors of Memorial Hall on Tuesday, a committee of two, with the president, was created, whose business it shall be to publish to the members from time to time all information about the conduct of the business of the association that will interest them and enlighten them upon the spirit and true workings of its affairs. The policy of the corporation of the college has been of late to throw the association as much as possible into the hands of the students, and it is to be hoped that the committee just mentioned will succeed in awakening...
...conference he will not attempt the management of the team, and other old players have avowed their intention of giving up the sport. One of them was heard to say that if the champion Yale was excluded, the contests would be reduced to walk over, and all interest and enthusiasm would be at an end. This is the general verdict at Princeton...
...business for a gentleman to touch." But the original cause is that our young men while in the midst of their education are too much taken up by other things to give any attention to public affairs, and thus, at the very time when their attention and their interest would be of most service, both to themselves and to the nation, they acquire a distaste or an utter indifference for all matters of this nature. Nowhere is this tendency more seen than at Harvard. Here, beyond some courses in the abstract principles of public policy and or two debates...
...impressed with his new acquaintance, and their intimacy was continued by a visit from the banker at Professor Parker's beautiful Hanover home. Out of this friendship and admiration for one of the college's most popular professors resulted the bequest of $50,000 to the college. An added interest attaches to the gift for the reason that no one was aware of the intention of the benefactor until after his death...