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...college officers who uphold such restrictions could be convinced that thereby they defeat their own cherished purpose, undoubtedly they would make such a change as has been made at Harvard. So long as they shall believe that compulsion tends to the religious improvement of students who need it compulsion will be retained...
...months past the authorities have been investigating the feasibility of such a plan and have now determined upon adopting it. The one great difficulty in their way was the absence of any available funds for putting light of any kind into the library. But Harvard never lacks friends in need, and a number of gentlemen were found who were willing to contribute for so worthy a purpose. It is but two or three weeks ago that the fund which amounts to $2000 was assured. It was collected in sums varying very much in size, but all given with the same...
...books will wonder and rejoice when they need no longer pass the long nights in darkness, such as Egypt and Cambridge alone have ever brought forth!. They will almost burst their musty bindings in sending forth a mighty sigh of relief and of gladness. And the students. - we hardly dare contemplate the vast impetus to work which those glowing carbon flaments will give them. Every chair will be filled, every inch of the table eagerly occupied. The man who goes through college without ever having seen the inside of the library will commit a double crime, for he will have...
...they refuse to live level with their own times. It is quite as possible to teach oratory at Cambridge as it is to teach chemistry or mathematics, and with quite as satisfactory results. There are to-day and here methods and systems and teachers of oratory adequate to the need, and if Harvard objects that these systems are fragmentary or unfinished, she has both money and leisure enough to take them in hand with her own chosen officials and make them satisfactory. What she has done for generations is to ignore them all and put nothing in their place...
...Neither the 'varsity teams nor the 'varsity crew have trained together so far, but individual practice has been the rule for some time. In a word the season's work has been well begun and bids fair to go on with a rush after the recess. There is every need of this, however, with so many vacancies in the nine and crew; and moreover, hard work will be required to make our possession of the Mott Haven cup at all sure...