Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Boston Herald speaks of Turner's Liber Studio-room sketches as a valuable book for students...
...CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Herald thinks that the Hemenway Gymnasium is but a slight improvement...
Here a hard, dissipated, and blase look tried to cross the Freshman's visage as he prepared to shock the N. C., but, suddenly thinking that the man might be a Herald reporter in feeble disguise, he foxily changed base, and replied, "As for smoking and drinking, I guess, as a rule, we are not so bad as the papers make out, but in betting we have to give odds to Yale...
Above all, although I called attention to one unpleasant feature of college life, it was far from my intention to present an unfavorable picture of it; and it is hardly fair to say that my statements correspond with the exaggerations of the Herald. College evils are grossly misrepresented by the public prints, and society at large is not aware how much good there is in college life, especially in life at Harvard. Ability, when it is attractive, is quickly recognized here, and our leading men exert a good influence over their fellows; for it is one of the happy distinctions...
...drink, and also that he does not like the taste of liquor; but if he hears that Swellington [the real 'popular man'] has been 'jolly drunk,' he will straightway get miserably drunk, and will brag about it for the rest of the year." If this had appeared in the Herald, no one would have been surprised, for it corresponds with the pictures of college life which appear from time to time in the public prints; but to find such a statement in a college paper is certainly startling...