Word: collegians
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...semblance of red men. The precautions taken by each crew, not to allow the other side to see them at their best, may be confidently set down to man's inborn love of outdoing his fellow by sly means as well as by the exercise of power. Every collegian is a Joey Bagstock, who hugs himself if he feels that he is 'devilish...
...years after the extinction of the "Harvard Magazine," a successor appeared in 1866, this time in the form of a newspaper called "The Collegian." The heavy tone of the magazine was abandoned, and none but light and interesting articles were admitted into its columns. But, unfortunately, "The Collegian" met with an untimely end, being suppressed by the faculty for certain disrespectful allusions to that august body. Its last number appeared in April...
Three months later, in May of the same year, the "Advocate" made its first appearance in the college arena. It was founded by the old editors of the defunct "Collegian," with the co-operation of two or three others. Its struggle for existence was at first a hard one, but it gradually grew in popularity and is now on a firm basis...
...years after the death of the "Register" one of its former contributors, anxious to wield the pen once more, started a new journal, called "The Collegian," which is said to have been of unusual excellence. Among its contributors was O. W. Holmes, then in the Medical School, who wrote under the fictitious name of Frank Hock. One of the volumes of "The Collegian" contains "The Spectre Pig," "The Mysterious Visitor, Evening." "The Dorchester Giant," and other pieces from the pen of the since famous poet. But "The Collegian," good as it was, did not escape the fate of its predecessors...
...issued May 1, 1866. From that time until the present, the paper has appeared fortnightly during the year. The Advocate was the first Harvard newspaper." Preceding the Advocate, however, had been other publications, the Lyceum, the Magazine, and a few more of very short lives. In 1866 the Collegian was founded, but lived only a few months. Its successor was the present "Advocate." The story of the past life of this paper is exceedingly well told, and, because all the Harvard papers have been in one way or another so closely related, it almost embodies a complete sketch of Harvard...