Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...graduate committee, which has been in charge of the affair for some time, has heretofore refrained from activity for two chief reasons. One was "hard times," which discouraged any attempt to raise the large sum required. The other reason was that the committee has not felt at all sure that the club is generally desired by the undergraduates. The first cause is at least partially removed. Now it is in order to remove the second stumbling block once for all that the call is made for a mass meeting...
...recommended. The more graduates as well as present members of the two Universities can be brought together socially the better it will be for both. The spirit of friendliness and co-operation, which is natural between institutions whose aims are so similar, and whose members, as individuals, are so sure to come into contact with each other after graduation, is sure be strengthened by this means. We hope that more such meetings can be held in the future...
...another column is announced the establishment of a fund to provide the University with an annual series of lectures by a French man-of-letters. This extremely generous action on the part of the Senior who has established the fund is sure to be appreciated at Harvard and by the graduates. Nothing is more in keeping with the broadening purposes of a university than a project which will bring to the instructors and students the influences of foreign culture. A yearly visit from an illustrious French scholar, who is to speak to us in good French and from a fresh...
...objection to this book is its title,- "Harvard Episedes." A book with this title is sure to be taken by the outside public as more or less representive of Harvard life. As a matter of fact, it is representative of only "a very little corner" thereof, and represents this corner in a far from attractive light. With the exception of Haydock, all the characters are unmanly, snobbish, morbid or unhappy. That such characters exist in every college class is of course undeniable, but they are, after all, not typical of this University or, let us hope, of any other...
ENGLISH C.- First briefs will be returned on Monday, December 6, from 3.30 to 5, in Sever 35. All men please be sure either to call or send for briefs...