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Dates: during 1870-1879
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The author of "An Evolutionist's idea of Harvard" may deem it supererogatory and profane in me to seek explanations when he has contented himself with vigorous adjectives, but a rational account of a small but inevitable excess of vice points out the mote that darkens the clear vision of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE BARDS AND CRIMSON REVIEWERS. | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

Thus far we have been concerned with the exaggerated and atrabiliar statements of the writer. His co-ordination of the facts with the phenomena that had been the subject of this discussion is hardly ambitious enough to merit the name of reasoning. A fondness for the universal affirmative or negative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE BARDS AND CRIMSON REVIEWERS. | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

THERE has lately been much discussion in student circles about that characteristic of Harvard undergraduates which we choose to call "indifference," - a term which is often used for laziness in very much the same way as, in the circles of outer darkness, "financial irregularity" is used for fraud. This indifference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDIFFERENCE AGAIN. | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

For several years there has been a decided decrease at Harvard of this kind of practical joking. Since the present Board of Editors has been connected with the paper, there has been no other wanton and perfectly objectless destruction of College property. The unusual character of the occurrence makes it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/29/1875 | See Source »

However, I was filled with sorrow to learn that the character of the community and the traditions of the college prevented them from joining the undignified crowd which at present participates in the intercollegiate regattas; for it appears to me that the races need some proud and dignified college like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT DID NOT GO TO SARATOGA. | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

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