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Dates: during 1870-1879
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But we cannot conclude without looking at home, and considering the claims which Harvard students possess to be regarded as men. For a number of years past, but more particularly recently, the Faculty have endeavored to treat students as if they were sufficiently mature to judge for themselves in matters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE "MAN." | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

HOW different are the tests by which we try our friends' characters! What different standards do we form, and how variously do we apply them! A man's taste in pictures, in tobacco, in wine, and in society, all serve as touchstones, to be applied to him by one or...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKS AND BOOK-CASES. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

I would suggest, then, that those interested should circulate a petition for signatures, or else that a book be placed where all could sign their approbation or disapproval of the plan. And let the names be written out, since character as well as number will have its influence here.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

Mr. Gorman's rendering of Rossini's fantasia from La Gazza Ladra was graceful, light, and airy, and in perfect keeping with the supposed mischievous, mocking character of the subject. He was warmly encored. But the finest individual effort of the evening was Mr. Russak's piano solo, "Regoletto," from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PIERIAN CONCERT. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

Or the fault may lie in my own stupidity; for I confess that even yet I cannot see the connection between politics and chimney-pots, or between personal allusions to the character of prominent politicians and good taste in architecture. When I go voluntarily into a political meeting, knowing that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROVINCE OF ELECTIVES. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

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