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...University with whom the students have been most closely associated, and now, since he has resigned, it is possible for us to express the feelings of most of the student body toward him. In all matters connected with his office Professor Smith has always been just, and although often accused of harsh decisions, his opinion has been equitable and has been received as such by all fair minded men. The custom of regarding the Dean of the College with feelings of anything but reverence is always without foundation...
...saying that the whole college owed the graduates from that city unstinted gratitude for the earnest efforts they had made to show our athletes how their efforts to win in a straightforward gentlemanly way will be backed by the approbation of the alumni. He added that Mr. Hodges had often shown his loyalty to Harvard in defeat as he now had a chance to show it in victory. Mr. Hodges then made a short address, the drift of which was that the New York graduates were not trying simply to glorify victors but to show their pleasure at the fact...
...also that had less than fifty regular students. He found thirty per cent. of these teaching Bible history and the Bible. Eighteen per cent. taught church history proper in some forms; Harvard and Johns Hopkins as an occasional elective; Yale, Boston University, Haverford and New York University more often. Fifty per cent. of these colleges taught something of church history in connection with the study of evidences of Christianity. The speaker contrasted the English requirements with ours, showing the demands of the Oxford and Cambridge examinations. He presented the German Gymnasium as the best model. Before the student reaches Cicero...
...principal promoters of the American Colony at Topolobampo in Sinaloa, Mexico. He belonged to a prominent New York family and was a graduate of Harvard in 1853. Mr. Howland's tastes were literary; he was one of the editors of the Saturday Press, and often contributed to the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine...
...possible. We are led to discuss the advisability of this plan. Not a great many years ago it was hardly possible for a graduate to get a chance to advise the under-graduates on athletic questions,-graduates were not wanted, and were put aside so often that finally the students were left to themselves. The result everyone knows. Our teams lost all that years of previous work had gained; they have never recovered from the blow they received when certain men, sure that they knew all there was to know, refused to take the advice of their elders. The unwisdom...