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...generally more elaborate and more widely read. And I must say that they seem to me to be more comic. In particular, they have more artists. At O. and C. there is no dearth of young men who can write--I mean, will write--for the Isis or the Granta, but the number of those who are prepared to draw in public is, as a rule, extremely small. The Harvard Lampoon and the Yale Record seem to be in much better case. The Lampoon, by the way, is so overflowing with merriment that it has built itself a building which...
...week passes in a constant round of festivity. Garden-parties in the college grounds, picnics up the Granta and the Isis; concerts and balls at night; and not least, the glorious music and impressive services of Sunday, in time honored chapels, whose walls exhibit great names of those who in their turn have studied and worshipped in those sacred precincts - such are the attractions which the universities hold out to their summer visitors, and which are little likely to be forgotten by those who have the good fortune to take part in them...