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Dates: during 1870-1879
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2D S. There's something else in what it intimates. I confess I am not yet able to be reconciled to the separation of great wisdom from great character. The former, if present without the latter, can lay no claim to merit. If men forget that we have had four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD COLLEGE. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

Our elective system, offering, as it does, choice of so many studies, has a tendency to develop specialists in one study, the evil effects of which in youthful education are freely admitted. Investigation will show that a large part of the students pursue almost exclusively literary studies, leaving science and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW SHALL I SPEND MY SUMMER VACATION? | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

THE editorial articles in the last Advocate have afforded me so much entertainment that I venture to trespass on your columns, to call public attention to some of the extraordinary statements which your contemporary has seen fit to publish I will begin with one or two mistakes which a glance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

THE theatricals given at Union Hall, last Wednesday, by the undergraduate members of the Pi Eta, included the farce "Class-Day," and the burlesque "Villikins and his Dinah." The farce was written for the society by Dr. F. A. Harris, a graduate member, and though depending more than usual upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PI ETA THEATRICALS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

Although a rather quiet farce, it put the audience in a happy and expectant mood, which the excellence of the burlesque did not at all disappoint. Like most burlesques which go through the remodelling and adapting hands of college societies, the title gave a very insufficient clew to the real...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PI ETA THEATRICALS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

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