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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Literary Cabinet, published at Yale. The oldest of college papers now living is the Yale Literary Magazine, established in 1836. Secretary Evarts was one of the founders of this magazine, and D. G. Mitchell, Dr. J. P. Thompson, Senator Ferry, and President A. D. White have been among its editors...
...less numerous than Yale's, they indicate (considered as a whole) greater literary ability, and have had greater influence on college opinion. The Harvard Lyceum was the first, founded in 1810, with Edward Everett as one of its editors. After its death the next paper was the Harvard Register, among the editors of which were President Felton, George S. Hillard, and Robert C. Winthrop. In 1830 appeared the Collegian, notable as containing the contributions of Oliver Wendell Holmes, then a student in the Law School. The Collegian was succeeded by Harvardiana, on which James Russell Lowell first employed...
There is, indeed, quite an array of distinguished names among the former editors of college papers. It is an inspiring thought to the young writer that Webster, Everett, and the Rev. Joseph Cook all began their great careers in this capacity...
...applicants for scholarships or beneficiary aid. That is, five eighths of the first half of the class were men whose parents or friends could provide for them. Out of the first fifty twenty-three only were candidates for scholarships. These facts prove that scholarly ambition prevails in good degree among that large majority of our students who do not feel the stimulus of impending want...
...resolve to continue doing whatever it may still be in our power to do, for the honor of our class, for the good of our fellow-man, and for the prosperity and welfare of our beloved Alma Mater. Let us hope that we may never be counted among her unworthy or ungrateful children...