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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WE hope that, on the completion of the new wing of the Library, a change will be made in regard to the alcoves. Beyond the name, the catalogue necessarily gives the most unsatisfactory and meagre information in regard to the character of a book. In half the time it ordinarily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

I had expected to discover the poet by his long hair, but this is no mark of poetic genius at Orono. They might have all been poets if this had been the only qualification. It would be unjust to him to attempt to reproduce the sentiments his poem contained. There...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS DAY AT ORONO. | 3/9/1877 | See Source »

THIS week, the Era mourns. The "unsuspecting Westerner" no longer listens to the dulcet tones of Cornell, "one of the most popular colleges in the country, in the opinion of Westerners." The reasons are the Cincinnati Examinations, and the fact that "every State has a dozen monohippic colleges at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 3/9/1877 | See Source »

Being, therefore, much puzzled by the constant repetition of this word, I have taken some pains to discover what the average Harvard man thinks a university is, and I find his idea of it to be pretty much as follows: Strictly voluntary attendance at all college exercises is the most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TRUE UNIVERSITY. | 2/23/1877 | See Source »

Men are always more or less coarse. If you pass your time for a month or two in their company, and in their company alone, you will be amazed at your own roughness, to say the least, when you mingle once more with the fairer portion of humanity. A man...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

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