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...first century of Harvard College may be divided into three parts: the first period, the time of the old New England theocracy, coeval with the existence of the Commonwealth in England; the second period, an uncertain time, during which the old charter of the College was revoked, and a new and more liberal charter granted by William and Mary; and the third period, extending through the provincial days to the first stirrings of the Revolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old South Lecture by J. K. Hosmer | 1/14/1908 | See Source »

...Harvard athletes. The object of college training is not to turn out Kilrains and Sullivans, but to sharpen the intellect and broaden the man. There was a day when the plumes of the knight adorned the cap that crowned the strongest knots of brawn, but that was an age coeval with bull-fights and duels. No person with refined sensibilities can look upon a modern game of foot-ball, with all its cruelly, and feel that it is in keeping with our civilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Western Idea of Athletics. | 3/16/1893 | See Source »

...College Kodaks," the second and fourth are the best, the former being the brighter of the two. It would have been better, perhaps, for mother Advocate's reputation as a teller of stories had she omitted the fifth Kodak, - a Travers story that has been for some of us coeval with Mother Goose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 10/6/1891 | See Source »

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