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...remarks at the Harvard Club dinner, at Delmonicos' last Thursday, Mr. C. M. Depew, president of the Yale Club, said: "In many things Yale is content to follow and learn of Harvard. This willingness extended even to New London;" and before the laughter had died away the speaker continued, "And last fall and the fall before and I don't know how many more falls, Yale also followed Harvard across the foot-ball field up town...
...next speaker was Prof. Shaler. His discourses was confined to what he called the new fight between the Greeks and the Trojans. He had been accused of being a Trojon himself, possibly on account of his connection with the scientific department, and he was therefore glad of the opportunity to explain his position and that of the college on the subject. Hellenism, he said, was the most precious motive, after Christianity, in the intellectual life of today, and whoever would remove it would do a great wrong. But the progress of discovery had opened new heavens and earths. Whole sets...
...enthusiasm that Harvard does, but when charles Francis Adams, at a Harvard commencement, declared there was nothing within the bounds of ambition he might not have attained had be not been weighted down by the classics, it was enough to cause Yale men to doubt their efficiency. Consequently, the speaker thought that the time was probably not far distant when Yale would stand where Harvard does now. He alluded to the new inter-collegiate athletic rules as the outcome of a desire of the Harvard faculty to protect their students from the beatings received at foot-ball from Yale...
...just been given by Rev. Phillips Brooks, have a special significance. They are the first practical illustration of the university idea. The lectures are drawn from the most various parts of the university and bring their united weight to bear on the problems of a single part. Each speaker is invited to deal with some point in which his special vocation touches the thought or the life of students of Theology. Thus, the corporation, the overseers, the Law School, and the Medical School and the various departments of the college, each says its word to the Divinity School. This step...
...believe that this aspect of the question has been sufficiently studied, particularly here at Harvard. The entire discussion of the Greek question has been made on so-called practical grounds. Our professors and our magazine-writers have confined themselves in their debates on the subject to what a speaker in the Harvard Union so aptly called the "bread-and-butter" view. "We must consult the spirit of the times in which we live. That spirit tends entirely towards progress, towards the substitution of new and more practical ideas for those which have governed the world for centuries past. We must...