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...comes to college and does not avail himself of the opportunity to attend the lectures that are constantly being given, is not enjoying the advantages and benefits which Harvard offers in this particular direction. Lectures are the great means by which we may gather the ideas of different men, learn of the vocations and grow wise from their experience; it is also the means by which we may become acquainted with the great men of our day and learn of their manner of thinking. This system of having public lectures is daily growing more and more popular; especially is this...
...caused Mr. Depew great surprise to learn that he had been lecturing for the benefit of the Princeton nine, and he is said to have expressed some doubts as to the propriety of such an action in connection with his position as a loyal Yalensian. - Princetonian...
...asked to give: they are more often treated as interlopers in college affairs than persons whose support or backing is desirable. Yale men who will take the trouble to read Mr. Henry C. Kingsley's contribution to the November number of the New Englander and Yale Review, can easily learn the disposition of the "powers that be" toward the body of the alumni...
Query: - Are the committee of arrangements too old to learn by experience...
...intended, and that in the management of them Harvard should have first consideration, and Cambridge second. If the seats were reserved for members of the university till within a few minutes of the time for the lecture to begin, the men, women and children of Cambridge would quickly learn that it would not pay them to wait a quarter or half an hour before closed doors in order to get the best seats in the hall. Where Harvard is quite capable of crowding her lecture halls, the aid of Cambridge is certainly unnecessary. If there is room for Cambridge...