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...following review of "Hammersmith; his Harvard Days," from the last number of the Yale Lit., in point of date is quite in accord with the spirit of that venerable periodical. In point of spirit it is exceedingly breezy and most extraordinary, and therefore worth quoting: "Having never seen nor (we confess it) heard of this book before, we picked it up with the reflection: 'The man that could perpetrate a story of five hundred pages about Harvard - or any other college for that matter - ought to be flayed. Conceited undergraduate, no doubt. Confound him!' 'God bless...
...school, this year sends five boys to Harvard, and is likely to send fifteen next year. Williston, the largest feeder of Yale, last year sent more boys to Cambridge than to New Haven. It is understood that the destruction of the individual character of these schools is entirely in accord with the wishes of their officers. and is, in fact, largely due to their efforts...
...still, notwithstanding the substantial accord of spirit towards which all are tending, we cannot admit, as some of our Western friends would seem to wish to have us do, that the difference in degree in the comparative amount of instruction in the regular course of the larger universities, as Yale, the University of Michigan and Harvard, and in the smaller colleges of the West, is really inconsiderable. Each class works its own work, but it is mere pretence to claim that the work of both is equal. The mere statement of courses catalogued, of authors read and of subjects treated...
...well shaken down and settled. It is supposed that these elements only come to the surface when a civilization begins to rot from its own tedium, that they are the gases therefrom caught in balloons and allowed to float about in the air till they collapse of their own accord. But this is evidently untrue, or Boston must have jumped from the cradle into long trousers without stopping for bibs, pinafores and knee-breeches. The latter is the case, and Mrs. De Sorosis was Boston's wet-nurse. She it was who gleaned from St. Beuve's "Portraits de Femmes...
Dealt out - then swore, with one accord...