Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...apparently fully as ready to stand up for its rights as the average freshman class. Can it be that the millennium is approaching, when the sophomore and freshman are to lie down together, like the oft-mentioned lion and lamb? During our own first two years in college we thought that day to be far distant. Can it be that it is so near while we are yet undergraduates...
...October, a meeting of the society was called by the secretay, Mr. F. W. White, for the purpose of considering whether some new life could not be infused into the dry bones. The members present thought that there was yet a hope of raising the society from its then dormant state to a condition of practical usefulness. A committee was therefore appointed to consider ways and means...
Next year Harvard College will celebrate its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. The authorities have been much perplexed as to the most fitting way in which this should be done; some have thought that a Greek play should be presented; others, principally the leaders in the present progressive educational movement, think that one of Shakspere's plays "set with ancient simplicity." would better conform to the spirit of the time. While this perplexity exists here at home, there is going on in a quiet, unassuming way, something which will do more to commemorate fittingly this great event than...
...Savage, the distinguished antiquarian, visited England, and, assisted by Edward Everett, at that time the American minister, made what was thought to be an exhaustive search for records of John Harvard. Mr. Savage's efforts were so fruitless that, although $100 were offered for each of five lines giving information about him, nothing new was discovered. Mr. Henry Waters, the agent of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, has since taken up the work, and by most assiduous labor has found what he thinks will lead to the dissipation of the mist which has so long overhung the early life...
...many and great, its advantages few and insignificant. The faculty, we understand, are by a large majority in favor of a change, and all that is needed is a little agitation of the question from the students side to inaugurate the reform. There is little doubt that, with careful thought, a system could be devised answering the desired purpose much better than the present system...