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...brilliant linguist. He devoted most of his time to literature. Shelley and Praed were his favorite poets. He amused himself by writing sketches, poems, fragments of plays, etc., some of which were printed in the papers of the day, and two poems appeared in the college paper, - the Collegian...
...college opinion. The Harvard Lyceum was the first, founded in 1810, with Edward Everett as one of its editors. After its death the next paper was the Harvard Register, among the editors of which were President Felton, George S. Hillard, and Robert C. Winthrop. In 1830 appeared the Collegian, notable as containing the contributions of Oliver Wendell Holmes, then a student in the Law School. The Collegian was succeeded by Harvardiana, on which James Russell Lowell first employed his pen. In 1854 appeared the Harvard Magazine, with Phillips Brooks among its editors; and this was followed...
...cannot resist giving two quotations from a poem in the Tufts Collegian, entitled "The Wreck...
...Freshman. He will carry that green worsted bag, emblazoned with his initials, - which might as well be Hannibal's, for nobody can decipher them, - and a very little bag, containing his toothbrush. He will walk through the train twice. He knows every one will see that he is a collegian; but he forgets that every one will see what is equally obvious, - that he is a Freshman. We pardon him, for we confess to a slight thrill of pride when first a mucker called out after us, "Hi! look at the Harvard...
...Collegian, with a happy combination of injured dignity and scathing sarcasm, denounces the members of the Freshman class for their unanimous refusal to subscribe to the paper. After all, as there are only twenty-two Freshmen, it is hardly worth crying about...