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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...their college and printing-office. We left abt. 6 o'k in the morning, and were set across the river at Charlestown. We reached Cambridge abt. 8 o'k. It is not a large village, and the houses stand very much apart. The college building is the most conspicuous among them. We went to it expecting to see something curious, as it is the only college or would-be academy of the Protestants in all America; but we found ourselves mistaken. In approaching the house we neither heard nor saw anything mentionable; but going to the other side...
...AMONG the most vehement, if not the most just, complaints constantly occurring, and the subject of nine tenths of the communications sent to the College papers, is the practical grievance suffered by all undergraduates in College buildings arising from the shabby treatment their rooms receive at the hands of the so-called "Goodies." A few years ago the rooms were far more simply furnished; but now a man's room is not a bad exponent of his character and circumstances, and with better accommodations college rooms have grown to be more inhabitable and more home-like. It seems a shame...
Though I had no heart to blame my chum in the concrete instance, I did deliver him a lecture on the abstract scorn of poetry, that is so prevalent among us, and a few words from this it is my purpose to indite here...
There is more reason for retaining the Freshman race. It serves as a school for future University men, and creates usually a healthy interest in boating among the Freshmen. But, on the other hand, it is doubtful whether class races and class crews are not incongruous with the present boating-system at Harvard, and whether the same material for University oars could not be worked up by club races, while the money necessary for the support of the Freshman crew could be given to the 'Varsity...
...AMONG this singular people -the aborigines of the Mississippi Valley -the chief deities appear to have been Munnee and his wife Boshor. Their story is very obscure, but the most recent investigations seem to show that they came from the land of the rising sun, and found, in the country of the mound-builders, a hopelessly savage people. With the aid of the magic power which they drew from the sun, they gained complete control of the whole region, but they were at first unable to civilize the natives. The aboriginal race had sunk to such a depth of degradation...