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...followed. He claimed that the greatest opportunities were offered to a student entering Harvard. His success depended on his judgment and himself generally, as a matter of course, but Harvard was aiming more than any other college in America to discipline the character of her students. Harvard did not want to see her students go out into the world undecided what to do. She did not want to make their four years at college only four years of boyish study. What she did want was to turn out real men-men who would know where to go and what...
...decidedly superior, both as to subject and treatment, to the corresponding features of American college journals. No attempt seems to be made at humorous writing, unless, perchance, it be a bit of verse. The contributions belong distinctly to the class called "solid," and are on such subjects as "Want of Leaders in Oxford," "Democracy and Culture," "University Men and Local Government." There is every evidence that these articles are read with interest, for quite a number of them have called forth lengthy rejoinders...
...junior or a senior he begins to think seriously of the profession which he shall adopt. The first thing he should do is the settlement of a plan for this life and the next. Young men should cultivate the teachings of their loftiest moments and remember what they will want when they have a fireside of their...
...students a building fronting on Harvard street which was used as a dining hall until the foundation of Memorial Hall. During this same year he made arrangements to provide for the cost of a scientific expedition to Brazil by Prof. Agassiz. Prof. Agassiz was greatly perplexed for want of means to meet the expenses of the expedition. Mr. Thayer offered to defray the expenses of Prof. Agassiz and six assistants. The expedition yielded scientific results of great importance, and, although the expenses proved greater than was anticipated, Mr. Thayer did not refuse to defray them. Thayer Hall was erected...
...been started and is likely to be continued, it stirs no prejudice, excites no opposition, involves no change of policy for the university. The students of the Annex manifest no desire for co-education. The element of competition with men does not enter into their aims. They simply want the best education they can get, and they seek it at Harvard because the means to that end exist there...