Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Accompanying the letterpress accounts are thirty-two excellent heliotypes of the various College buildings, and numerous woodcuts. The three pictures of students' rooms tell more of college life than any number of books...
WHEN the class of '74 was in college, the characteristic feature of Harvard life was the formation of societies. It was then that the Cricket Club and the Athletic Association came into being. The same period saw the birth of Le Cercle Francais, the Chess Club, and the Foot Ball Club; while the College Telegraph Company, which has since been metamorphosed into the College Telephone Company, does not date from an earlier epoch. Several of these organizations have ceased to have any real existence as societies, or even any nominal existence in the Index; but if the energetic...
...pleasant to compare ourselves in this matter with Yale and Amherst, where music forms so enjoyable a part of the college life. At Amherst, besides a college Glee Club worthy of the name, there are a number of smaller organizations that serve as training-schools for it. What would the members of our Glee Club think of two rehearsals a day for a week before a concert, as is customary at Yale...
...assure you that all my friends to whom I have spoken on the subject - and we often talk about it, since we can now look back over our course - agree unanimously in saying that they have had quite enough of the undergraduate life. They don't think that a longer stay here would...
...came out in the horse-car, I thought over this conversation, and especially over the Senior's Parthian shot. I wondered whether I had a much higher purpose in view than he confessed to, and if not, whether I should ever become so blase in regard to college life. It puzzled me most, however, to find out whether "quite a respectable portion" of the class would really be rather glad than otherwise to take their sheep-skins and walk away. I am not sure of the answer yet, but am still wondering...