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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Company, does not date from an earlier epoch. Several of these organizations have ceased to have any real existence as societies, or even any nominal existence in the Index; but if the energetic men of '74 were to take a look at the inside of Harvard College life to-day, they would not be disappointed in finding energetic and progressive successors. Das Verein, Le Cercle Francais, and the ??? are no more, it is true; but look at the societies that have replaced them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PROGRESSIVE AGE. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

...where music forms so enjoyable a part of the college life. At Amherst, besides a college Glee Club worthy of the name, there are a number of smaller organizations that serve as training-schools for it. What would the members of our Glee Club think of two rehearsals a day for a week before a concert, as is customary at Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC AT HARVARD. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

...thing" is so vast that it covers all the actions of life, from bawling in the cradle to delivering a Class Day oration, and is as uncertain as it is grand. All its admirers, however, unite in condemning certain actions as objectionable, and these, of course, are to be avoided by every true thing-worshipper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE THING." | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...dining in Boston the other day. A Senior sat next to the lady of the house, and during the dinner she asked him how he felt at the prospect of his departure from Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT THE SENIOR SAID. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...study previous to entering the Law School. He can't be admitted to the bar till he is twenty-seven at least; and yet he don't seem to think he has been wasting his time. The young man whose room in Stoughton my nephew borrowed for his Class Day told me that he had got ninety-five per cent in his college course, and that he intended to study for a Ph. D. Besides, our neighbor Mrs. Beacon Street told me the other day that her son Harry, just after his last examinations, got permission from the Faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT THE SENIOR SAID. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

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