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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is one marked improvement in this number of the Monthly over the last: it contains less poetry in proportion to the prose. Too much verse in a magazine of this nature is apt to pall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 12/8/1887 | See Source »

...such light, and we must confess that such lack of wit is only another argument for the position we have taken. It shows that there are a few men here who are so absorbed in the old regime that they cannot even appreciate that changes are taking place, much less understand the significance of those changes. To those who are still in the dark as to our intents, we would say that we advocate an improvement in the tone of Harvard life which will wipe out the deference paid "to pink shirts and bull-pups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/7/1887 | See Source »

...many acres in that college quadrangle at Harvard Square?" "About a hundred and fifty," answered one of the divinity school men. "No, not less than six hundred," rejoined another. Their answers show our need of definite knowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notes from Harvard College. | 12/7/1887 | See Source »

...Harvard's glory is apparent in her poverty. The pressure upon her resources is simply tremendous. Men less kind and courteous would be ceaselessly wrangling and bitterly jealous, if called to struggle a these do for their share of the college income; while each department, each scientific school, the gymnasium, the library, get but part of what they need, and each is just able to pull through the year and not run in debt. This only means that the life of the school is grandly vigorous. Its various departments beset the sorely tried president and treasurer with the appetites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notes from Harvard College. | 12/7/1887 | See Source »

...paper ever published. It was an original production and soon made its way to popularity and fame. Its editorials were keenly humorous, and its jokes and "binds" were fresh and original, having few "chestnuts" among them. The pictures for the first few years were rough. The artists took less care with their work than those who came later, and the process of printing, etc., was more crude than it is to-day. Nevertheless the pictures as well as the reading matter stamped the paper as the Lampoon, and then when the red cover was adopted the paper had still another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Lampoon. | 12/5/1887 | See Source »

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