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...January, 1830, "The Collegian," the ablest of all Harvard periodicals was started, principally through the efforts of J. O. Sargent '30, the only editor of the "Register" then in College. It was in this paper that Oliver Wendell Holmes began his literary career, taking for his assumed name "Frank Hock." His writings were more numerous than those of any other contributor and were copied throughout the country. Twelve of them have since been published with his later works. In style, the "Collegian" was light and witty, and was for the first time the voice of current events and opinions about...
...number contains as regular departments of the magazine "Comments on University News," edited by Edward S. Martin, Harvard '77, and a digest of the month's athletic news, edited by Walter Camp, Yale '80. The number contains "The Wreck," a poem by Albert Matthews, Harvard '82, and "An American Collegian at Oxford," by John Corbin...
...gratification to the vote of New York by which stringent provisions for civil service reform will be incorporated in the constitution, he told how he had come himself to take up the cause. He emphasized the fact that he had not approached it from the theoretical standpoint of a collegian, but from the practical standpoint of a member of the New York legislature. Several times during his address Mr. Roosevelt insisted earnestly on the practicability of such a reform. "Decent politics are practicable in this country," were his words...
...college man must feel that he would rather play against a graduate - a man who for four years had lived a college life, had become imbued with the college spirit, had learned to look at matters from the collegian's standpoint - than to play against a man who was not a graduate, but who perhaps had been induced to enter a university for a short season in order to take part in some sport in which he was proficient. The tendency to confound the use of the term professional with the idea of skilful through long years of practice...
...University. While he was in college he was very much esteemed, for besides being valedictorian of his class he was a member of the Institute of 1770, the Hasty Pudding, the Med Facs, the Porcellian Club, Grand Master of the Knights of the Square Table, and editor of the Collegian. In his work on the Collegian he had for a co-editor, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In after life he had a good deal to do with Mr. Holmes in editing a brochure entitled "Illustrations of the Athenian Gallery" and a collection of poems called "The Harbinger." His translation of Grun...