Word: authors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first college journal ever published at Harvard appeared in the month of July, 1810, and was known as the "Harvard Lyceum." Its editors, among whom were Edward Everett and Samuel Gilman, the author of "Fair Harvard," written for the centennial celebration in 1836, were all members of the class of 1811. The magazine appeared semi-monthly and was devoted to the discussion of such abstruse and heavy subjects that it was unable to maintain any popularity with the students and died after the short existence of one year. The last number, which appeared in March, 1811, contained a farewell address...
...know little of undergraduate life of the first six or seven years, but in 1643 we are told that the first commencement was held. By this time a system of government, of a very crude sort, had shaped itself. The first code of laws put forth by the college authorities was known as the "Dunster Code," and its first regulation was as follows: "When any scholar is able to understand Tully, or such like classical author, extempore, and make and speak true Latin, in verse and in prose, Suo ut aiunt Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigms of nouns...
...opening piece is a poem "To Clinton Scollard" which, being somewhat involved, holds its own in college poetry. The next article, "A Fellow Traveller," is the first of a number of short anecdotes. It has the recommendation of being interesting, but one feels a strong desire to assist the author on the matter of proper names and to suggest that there is something disagreeable to the reader at finding the hero in a town, beginning with an F and followed by a dash. Yet the anecdote is otherwise well told. "Phoebe Southerly" follows; being an account of the conversation...
...Ball," a poem (for want of a better word) of some half dozen stanzas, expresses in verse what the title says in prose, and it has this good point, that its author does not pretend to any wonderfully poetic idea, and does not try to express it in hexameter or pompous blank verse, and so we have a simple college poem which is sufficient unto itself...
...disadvantage of having had two similar pieces coming before it, and thus the reader perchance would have desired something other than a story. But "Princess Capricia" is brightly told, and by leaving the matter in hand a little in doubt keeps the interest up after reading. The author has hit upon a good idea there...