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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college building and the rapid increase of society houses, there has been a constant emigration from College Hill to the village. Of the students rooming in town above a hundred and ten live in society houses. These houses are owned by the Amherst chapters of the various Greek letter fraternities. Seven in number, they differ greatly in age, architecture, size, situation, convenience and elegance. Besides the secret lodge-room, the parlors and reading-room, each house has accommodations for from ten to eighteen students. They are really college homes; and, forming as they do, the recognized centres of society life...
...their esprit de corps in rushes, bonfires and like performances. But class spirit as it was twenty or thirty years ago, class spirtit such as exists to-day in many colleges, is a thing of the past at Amherst. And this change is due to the growth of Greek-letter societies, which have come to occupy first place in the loyalty of the students. Amherst secret societies are not to be confounded with class societies, for they are different in every respect. At Amherst a man joins a society in his freshman year, and continues his connection with it during...
...letter from Scotland is very pleasant reading to any one who cares for Harvard, and the editors of the Monthly can well feel gratified at President Eliot's action in making their paper the medium of communicacation for the student of St. Andrews in Scotland. There is reason for regret that we have no "Students' Representative Council" that might send an appropriate reply to this letter of greeting...
...Yale defeated Harvard, the wearers of the blue would challenge the Englishmen. As the latter concluded not to come to this country the matter was dropped. It is not at all probable that the Cambridge men can raise sufficient funds to come over here; in fact a letter received not long ago from a wellknown boating man there admits this fact. The same condition of affairs undoubtedly exists at Oxford. The only thing that remains to be done is to send a crew over there. In reference to the race, Mr. Stevenson, president of the Yale navy, said: "Personally...
...beauty. Quite different from this is "Acheron," a pretty simile in graceful, poetic language. The writer of "Ce Qu 'On Dit Et La Verite" shows considerable imagination and writes in a lively, entertaining style, which would be none the worse for a little more polish and elegance. The dated-letter or journal-method of telling a story is a device which is beginning to pall on readers of modern fiction. It is too frequently a convenient loop-hole for writers who have not the talent, or else wish to avoid the trouble of describing the closer detail of the surroundings...