Word: harvardianae
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...been accumulating for many years in the garret of University Hall, is now in the Department of Records in the Library. While few or none of the papers are of dates earlier than 1820, many of them are already very scarce and should be valuable to collectors of Harvardiana. Routine publications of all sorts, programmes of class day and other exercises, circulars, amusements and the like, make up the bulk of the collection; and of many papers there are from ten to fifty copies...
During the four following years, no magazine was published at Harvard. In September, 1834, appeared the first number of Harvardiana. The idea of issuing this paper originated with the freshman class, but the management and editorship was handed over to the juniors ('35) for one year. The second and third volumes were published by '37, and the fourth and final one by '38. Among the prominent contributors to Harvardiana were: J. R. Lowell, Nathaniel Holmes and H. G. Hale...
...Evart J. Wendell, '82, is Liberian of the Harvard Club in New York. He is trying to get together a collection of interesting books relating to Harvard. He will be glad to receive any contributions to this collection from those owning Harvardiana...
...They enthusiastically called a class-meeting and submitted their plan to their fellows, who were unanimous in their approval. But as some of the upper-classmen took the matter in hand the freshmen yielded the field and the seniors and juniors started the new journal, which was called the "Harvardiana." The first number, of octavo size with a blue cover engraved with a picture of University Hall, appeared in 1835. The editors in their opening address offer a very remarkable array of talent: "The frank and high-spirited son of the South, the cool and indefatigable Northerner, the poet with...
...sixteen years after the extinction of the "Harvardiana" no efforts were made to start a new magazine. But in 1854 the literary men of '55 and '56 took courage and gave to the college world the first number of a new periodical called "The Harvard Magazine." Nearly all of its first editors have since attained prominence. The class of '55 was represented by F. B. Sanborn, C. A. Chase and Phillips Brooks, while J. J. Jacobsen, J. B. Greenough and E. F. Fisher were chosen from '56. "The Harvard Magazine' had a longer life than any of its predecessors...