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...University will learn with pleasure that Professor Norton expects to resume his work in the Fine Arts Department at the end of his sabbatical year. A rumor that he intended to retire had gained more or less credence and brought with it universal regret. Professor Norton exerts an influence over the students which, it is safe to say, no other member of the Faculty does. When then we heard that the time had come when he must sever his connection with the University as an active worker, each one felt that his loss was almost a personal...
...varsity will play Cornell this afternoon on Holmes Field at 4 o'clock. It was impossible last night to learn the batting order of Cornell, but for Harvard the batting order will be the same as usual with Upton and Wiggin for the battery...
...needs only to do his simple duty, and learn to be expansive, to help the men less favored than himself, to learn that it is, in reality. more blessed to give than to receive. It is at a university that this lesson is hardest to learn; for the life though grand, is apt to be selfish. A man is with drawn from the affairs of the world and shut up with his books and his amusements, so that he needs to be cautions lest he shall be narrowed rather than broadened by his course. He must first...
...life here is a succession of visitations, some good, some evil; and it is for us to turn them all to good, to see our time and take advantage of it. The object of all teaching is to make people do this, but it is a hard lesson to learn. Our visitations often take the form of trials. The Paritans, in the midst of the hardships which everywhere attended them, yet seized the opportunity which they saw had come, and success rewarded them. How different was the outcome of the efforts of those who persecuted the Hugenots in Francel. Because...
...Lathrop is to start a class this afternoon at four o'clock in spring board leaping. All those who have ever turned somersalts off the spring board or would like to learn how, are urged to join. The class will meet daily at 4 and the best men will be selected to give an exhibition next Saturday...