Word: harvarditis
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...waiter at a boarding-house, near Harvard's classic halls...
...learn from the Record that a member of '75, at Harvard, has favored that journal with a communication containing information with reference to the ball and boating interests, and the relation of '75 to each of the college papers. This aspirant for the favors of the Record is treated rather gingerly by that paper. In the first place, the editors refuse to permit a letter from an anonymous correspondent; in the second place, they do not like the idea of having a correspondent; in the third place, they say that not even a knowledge of his name would justify them...
...number of two hundred paraded the streets of Ann Arbor and finally adjourned to the ball-ground, where Physics was burned amid a great deal of speech-making. For a novelty this year they were to repair en classe to Rettich's beer saloon. Imagine a class at Harvard making all this fuss in order to secure a reunion at Carl...
MUCH attention has been called, during the past eight or ten months, on the part of the newspapers, to the changes in agitation at Harvard. Some have censured, some approved, the liberality of the University Officers in taking such bold steps toward their universally accorded aim, a University system similar to Oxford or Cambridge...
Another reform is "The Harvard University Catalogue." The Catalogue is to all intents and purposes the "same old coon"; but some two hundred pages of interesting Examination-papers and choice advertisements have been generously added, making the "dem'd total" only five times as expensive as its less pretentious predecessor...