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...well aware that books associated with college life are often highly prized, and we do not mean that all books should be left by seniors. It is a matter for them to determine whether the books will do more good in their own hands or in the college libraries; but if the books are more needed in the latter place, then they ought freely to be given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/16/1894 | See Source »

...inhabitants of the northwestern section along the Pacific were the Aleuts and the western Esquimaux. They are characterized by their carvings of bone, ivory and stone, in which there is often a singular combination of human heads and animal bodies. They had no pottery and used instead vessels of wood, stone or basket work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Putnam's Lecture. | 6/14/1894 | See Source »

After Professor Norton had read parts of the Commemoration Ode, the services were closed by the Glee Club's singing a few verses of the hymn often sung at the funerals of fallen soldiers, "Integer Vitae...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/31/1894 | See Source »

...were not free agents, he said, it would be unnecessary to ask how we should choose and regulate our path in life. But we are not automatons and must work out our own destiny. In our work as students, in our social life and amusements we often magnify unimportant things and leave unnoticed the more important. It is so in religious life. We often emphasize faith in our religion and neglect works. The most discouraging part of the controversies on church questions is the magnifying of unessential things. If we would observe the true proportion of things as their natural...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Wright's Lecture. | 5/25/1894 | See Source »

...interest in the Mott Haven games next Saturday is greater than for some years, and the prospects are that the contest will be extremely close and interesting. As has often been the case three colleges are claiming consideration as possible winners of the cup, but this year it is Pennsylvania and not Princeton that will make the fight with Harvard and Yale. Experience has shown that predictions concerning the outcome of the individual events cannot be made with any degree of assurance. However, brief mention of the men whose public performances have been worthy of especial notice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mott Haven Games. | 5/23/1894 | See Source »