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I was quite surprised, however, to see nothing of Cardinal Newman's on the shelves. Think what we may of his opinions, hardly any one will deny that he is unsurpassed as a stylist. For my part, it seems to me that every man eager to be "modern" in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CRY FOR NEWMAN. | 2/1/1887 | See Source »

DEAR CHAPPIE: - Things are awful dull around here since our anniversary; nothing is going on, except, now and then, a class German, or a club supper. Our president is about to take a short vacation, and it is rumored around among the chaps that he is going to travel with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Harvard Letter. | 2/1/1887 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - The suggestions for the formation of a university club, now being made on all side, are timely, and should meet with consideration from both students and instructors in a great college like Harvard where there is danger of a man's personality being swamped and lost in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/27/1887 | See Source »

We are all of us creatures of antecedent circumstances. A man does not come into the world able to make entirely his own future. He is morally responsible, but his life and character are often controlled by circumstances anteceding his very birth. There is nothing more interesting than the perpetuation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Dwight of Yale Delivers a Lecture to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. | 1/21/1887 | See Source »

An article on "The Writings of Count Leon Tolstoi" by Mr. Berenson is an interesting paper and goes far to make up the interest in this number. And though not well acquainted with Tolstoi, we should say that he had been fairly judged and perhaps placed fully as high as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 1/19/1887 | See Source »