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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feel sure, that the freshmen have very deservedly won. May their exertions not falter until success in every field has crowned their efforts, and through their aid the championship in athletic sports, so long withheld from Harvard, may be reclaimed. Then in 1886 may the freshman class rest content with its laurels...
...young skipper who takes a party of young ladies out sailing should content himself with hugging the shore...
...recall what we declared to be our object at the outset. We said that we should endeavor to furnish pieces of a light and entertaining nature. They persist in looking for 'funny' articles - 'side-splitters' is their other euphonious name for it." The News adds that it is content to let the matter rest where it is, "for to our taste - depraved probably - light sketches are as satisfactory pabulum as warmed-over witty stories; in general literature to us Hawthorne is as entertaining as Josh Billings." The self-complacency with which the News compares its sketches to the works...
...that, on the other hand, the world of intellectual vigor is bounded on the East by the Hudson-that it has any boundary in fact: let it know that it is a world whose presence is felt everywhere-at Harvard as at Oberlin. Then, dear Review, we may be content to lie down in peace together, and cease our wordy wars about "sectional prejudice...
...begged me to take some wine with him, as the night before 'he had been forced to get drunk all alone.' I lived in terror lest this drunken fool might set his room on fire. If he had, for me, I knew, there was no escape. I must be content with pointing out the peculiar dangers from fire that thus threaten our colleges. I noticed them when I was myself an undergraduate, but my attention has been again aroused by the fact that one of my sons is a student at Oxford, and that some of his brothers...