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...that a permanent endowment for the School shall be secured before that time. Dr. Waldstein has accepted the invitation with this condition. It is obvious that there is no time to lose, if we are to avail ourselves of this opportunity. It should certainly be an object of national pride not only to secure the permanent establishment of an institution which is so full of promise to American scholarship, but at the same time to reclaim for his country a scholar who has gained laurels in the service of a foreign university. America cannot afford to let her scholars seek...
...late Uriah A. Boyden, should be given over by the trustees to the care of the Harvard observatory. For where in this country can be found an astronomical observatory so well equipped in every particular, or scientists of greater ability and of higher reputation? Indeed, while we think with pride of the great names in science which now and in the past have shed their glory on the University, it is also to be remembered that the professors of astronomy at the Harvard observatory, as well as those justly placed among the founders modern chemistry, zoology, botany and geology, gave...
...always been pointed out as exemplars of patriotism; but the fame of Ninety shall surpass all. We can safely say that never since the organization of an university crew, has any freshman class contributed so generously as the present one. Fifty-eight dollars! Ninety, Mother Harvard flushes with pardonable pride as she pats you on your little head and sighs with deep emotion. "He is my noblest...
...marked by literary contests in the societies. Whig and Clio Hall. Since the administration of Dr. McCosh in the college, Greek letter societies have been vetoed, and all interest in society matters has been concentrated in these two literary societies, which are strictly secret in their internal organizations. They pride themselves, and with good reason, on being the finest college literary societies in the United States. Each year, as incentives to literary effort, they each offer to their members between thirty and forty prizes for debate, oratory and essay work, these being available in medals, money and books...
...with admiration of him [President Dwight] and the new field of work on which he enters with so much zeal and with such a common consent of alumni and the entire public. The future of the university must be assured, and every alumnus of the institution must feel a pride in it that has never been equalled even in the most prosperous days of the past...