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Take the words of a young Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Class of 1829. The American poet and essayist arrived at Harvard in 1825 and was instantly dismayed at the quality of Cambridge women.
Instead, Holmes wrote in a letter, the neighborhood offered him “nothing but vinegar-faced old maids and drawing-room sentimentalists.”
It seems that the more life at Harvard changes, the more it stays the same, and many students would still agree with what Holmes wrote when he was a student at the College.
“I do believe I never shall be contented till I get the undisputed mastery of a petticoat,” Holmes wrote. —Staff writer Nicholas K. Tabor can be reached at ntabor@fas.harvard.edu.
Holmes Brannon, WOODLAND PARK, COLO.