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...special articles written on this subject were to be printed altogether we are sure that the rock of opposition would melt away like mist before their formidable array. The experiment is worth trying for one year at least, and then it could not be said (?) that Harvard college was behindhand in the march of college improvements...
...endurable in some rooms, but in University, especially U. E. R., it is too much for instructors to demand or for students to submit to. Admirable as is this perseverance with which a teacher is willing to subject himself to a temperature of 98 degrees rather than get behindhand in his course, we doubt the right to impose his zeal upon a large number of young men, in such a manner as to endanger their health...
...Committee for the Senior Promenade this year are having more difficulty than usual in obtaining subscriptions. While the lack of support is general, the Freshman and Junior classes are noticeably behindhand...
...this the Faculty have deserved, and have received, the appreciation of students. The childish habits of hazing and rushing have been entirely dispensed with, and the general improvement in tone among members of the College has been everywhere apparent. There are some respects, however, in which we are still behindhand, and occurrences occasionally take place which border upon the puerile amusements generally confined to the smaller colleges. Society initiations of a rough character originated among the boys of sixteen or seventeen who were in college when the societies were founded. Now, however, students are much older, and as the Faculty...
...Harvard men that Canada is worth something, for of course I could n't get much of a confession from free-born Americans; and for that matter I myself stick up for New England, as my "own native land," though Canada seems to me to be but little behindhand...