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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...selfishness of some natures. The false standards, false ideals, spirit of worldliness, and the worship of money at homes where expenses are carried beyond the bounds of reason and habits are excessive, are so threatening as to make all students apprehensive. There is little hope for a boy whose father is a man of the world, and whose mother is engaged other wise than in home duties, whose older brothers and sisters are already leading lives of gaiety if not of dissipation. Some preparatory schools are so un-American, so undemocratic and priggish as to impress their students that they...
...need not be denounced as imbecile. Yet with all due deference to her we believe she is mistaken. Whatever may have been her intention, she has not fairly represented Harvard's attitude toward her own withdrawal from the foot ball league. Very possibly there are men among us whose natural timidity forces them to look askance at Harvard's recent action, but these men neither represent the prevailing sentiment nor wield the strongest influence here. Harvard is not sorry that she has taken the stand she has. As we have pointed out before, she is in a far better position...
George, of Princeton, whose knee was injured in the Yale game is able to walk about...
DEAR SIRS.- The state of Tennessee has purchased the Hermitage the home of General Andrew Jackson and turned it over to the Ladies' Hermitage Association, an organization composed of prominent ladies of the different states, whose object is to purchase the valued furniture and relics of General Jackson now in the Hermitage, also to restore to its original beauty and grandeur, the historic mansion now quite dilapidated, and save to the nation a sacred spot where cluster memories of holy domestic life and unwavering patriotism...
...shall greatly appreciate a contribution. Even your recognition would be of incalculable value in adding us to raise the fund necessary to perpetuate the memory of the patriot whose thrilling utterance "The union must and shall be preserved," is now the watchword of this grand republic. I hand you bye laws, Governor Taylor's endorsement. etc., Awaiting your early and we sincerely trust, favorable reply, I am, dear sirs...