Word: faste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...article in the North American Review of this month entitled "The Fast Set at Harvard," is only the first of a number of articles intended to set before the faculty of the University a true statement of the inner life of Harvard's undergraduates. The author is working for the best interests of that institution...
There will be a fast Hare and Hounds run this afternoon, starting from Matthews at 3.15. Davenport and Downs will be the hares...
...There has never been such a shameful attack on an American college than the article in the ovember number of the North American Review on the "Fast Set at Harvard," in which the most scandalous assertions are made about the life and morals of Harvard...
...colleges. On the contrary any unbiased observer will admit without hesitation that in no college in America are the students more gentlemanly than here. Nowhere do they preserve better order among themselves than here; nowhere are hazing and rowdy-like amusements frowned on as here, and nowhere is the "fast set" smaller in proportion. People who have lived in other college towns will admit that no where are the students on better terms with the inhabitants than here...
...writer of the article in the North American, who has not the courage to sign his name says that the "fast set" is the most noticeable here. On the contrary this set is small in numbers and despised by the other sets. The proportion is not one in twenty-it is perhaps one in forty. The faculty are not too lenient, but are frequently unduly severe, and they do not hesitate to inflict suspension or expulsion as the occasion requires...