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By common consent Easter, primarily a church festival, has marked the opening of a period of social activity. Most of the schools and colleges of the country, whether sectarian or not, have acknowledged this fact and ordained their holidays accordingly. Harvard is one of the notable exceptions. Harvard students who...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born in Cambridge in 1823. He graduated from College in 1841 and six years later from the Divinity School. At the outbreak of the Civil War he received a commission as captain in the 51st Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; after three years of service he...
A notable feature in the new station is the placing of the electric light wires out of view. Everything will be done, in fact, to make the interior of the stations as attractive and convenient as possible. The ventilation of the Boston end of the tunnel will be accomplished by...
As a man of letters, Mr. Bryce is very well known in America. His great work "The American Commonwealth," which appeared in 1888, was the first in which the institutions of the United States had been thoroughly discussed from the point of view of a historian and a constitutional lawyer...
This class, which numbered 115 men and was one of the earliest to pass the 100 mark, contained many notable men, of whom the following named, twenty-five in number, are now alive: John Bigelow, Charles Lee Bixby, Allan Foster Boone, Herman Francis Brashear, Elihu Chauncey, John Doggett Cobb, Charles...