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...perhaps Flandrau put his finger on it in the following rather long paragraph in his delightful story, "The Class Day Idyl...
...remember the living conditions in our time? Unless you were a malefactor of great wealth, living in Claverly or Beck, or took your turn in standing under a faucet in teh gymnasium, there was no chance to bathe. Our classmate, Flandrau, says somewhere in his 'Diary of a Freshman' that a daily bath should be an innocent pleasure, not a morbid family pride. It was not either of these for most of us--it was an unattainable luxury...
...building in the Yard. Its immediate popularity is avoids by the foot that a second brining has been reached only two weeks after its first appearance. But the difference between this review of Harvard's past and other popular works on the same subject will, no doubt, be marked. Flandrau's well-known "Diary of a Freshman" and "Harvard Episodes", and other delightful memoirs of the same kind go more or less deeply into the undergraduate life, the pursuits of the students, and the quaint customs, like carving the benches of Sever, which became so firmly rooted and persist with...
Read "Being Respectable", by Grace Flandrau. You'll never regret it. This is the third time we've mentioned this book. The fact should at least pique your imagination...
...come. What is more, it makes no pretenses at democracy. The Freshman Dormitories, designed to combat the rampant spirit of caste, has done no small amount of good, but they have failed to establish any democracy--within even a single class. Harvard alumni winced at the publication of Mr. Flandrau's book, "Harvard Episodes," but they knew is substance to be true...