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...January, the price of board has twice been lowered. Moreover, during this time, the membership has increased ten per cent. The announcement is now made that a dividend of five per cent. has been declared, to be deducted from the term bills. Such material evidences of prosperity form another proof of the success of co-operative student movements at Harvard. We already have this scheme of cooperation more highly developed at Harvard than at any other college; but there is still much room for its growth. We feel sare that the further development of the system in the next...
...sermon was an exposition of how hard and persistently people work to attain low ends and to what an extreme they carry worldly lives; and ended with an exhortation to extend those energies in a worthier and higher cause. The story of the unjust steward was cited as a proof of how far worldliness may be carried when resolved to attain its end, and the history of the years of laborious and painstaking work of the Eastern dancing girls was given as an example of how hard people do strive for success in the lower grades of life. Then another...
...give no comprehensive summary such as the articles spoken of furnish; but we present what seem to us a few of the chief points on either side. Those who urge the new plan must assume the burden of proof. They say: first, that the present age of entrance into college is too high; second, that the growth in our standards and efficiency and the contemporary rise of the graduate school have been so great as to make the A. B. degree no longer the limit of general culture; third, that in general the number of college-bred men in America...
...Harvard feeling was aroused and kept alive during the whole evening by rounds of cheers and by the regulation Harvard songs which were interspersed among the courses of the dinner and the speeches afterward. The Harvard Club of New York has now about six hundred members and although no proof was needed to show that it was in a most flourishing condition, yet the enthusiasm exhibited at this dinner brought the loyalty of the New York alumni more fully to light not only to themselves but to Harvard men all over the country...
...these curiosities is the sacred pole of a tribe with the scalps of noted enemies attached; also there are arrows associated with mystic ceremonies and the sacred pipe of the tribe. The fact that Miss Fletcher has been able to obtain these trophies from the Indians is a good proof of the work of civilization she has been doing among them...