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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SIMPLE question, certainly. Easy enough to answer if we mean to inquire what Harvard is in a legal point of view; but if we wish to know what Harvard is, considered as an educational institution, we find a difference of opinion. "Harvard is a University," says the Freshman, who has been here just long enough to have learned that the modesty which pauses to knock at the Secretary's door is not regarded with favor by that officer. Longer experience, however, often tends to disturb this conviction, and in the mind of an upper-classman it becomes softened into...
...wish to read poetry, you can find better in the works of the great poets. Of course that is, in one way, true. The poetry of Shelley or Wordsworth is better, judged by the absolute standard, than that of our college papers; but as educators of college taste they may be inferior, since the poetry of our classmates is more superficial and more easily understood than the work of those who have been breathing the atmosphere of poetry all their lives." Chum repeated his previous remark...
...sister colleges" to know "how the change came upon" Princeton. It is convinced that the "sister colleges" will at once followed in Princeton's footsteps; and it thinks that in the deep religious convictions of the rising generation the political problems which have arisen since the Rebellion will find an easy solution...
...Will find few faces glum...
Thus, in looking over back numbers of the College papers, we find innumerable articles on the state of the Gymnasium, on the condition of the food at Memorial Hall, etc., which complaints are perfectly just, and so are generally published and read, although they become rather monotonous by repetition. Against these we have nothing to say, as it is only by reiterated complaints in the papers that the desires of the students are noticed by the Faculty or Corporation...