Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Collegian for January, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, who has been identified with Harvard life for half a century, gives a short sketch of the college life as it was in his undergraduate days. It is an interesting comparison with the Harvard life of today, so we quote a few of the most salient passages...
...last issue, the editorials deserve particular mention. They are frank and honest, and will serve to enlighten more than one student in regard to two questions closely connected with college life: the athletic question and the "coaching" question. From personal experience we know that there are scores of students who are almost entirely ignorant both of the status of the body which now governs our athletics and of the course of events which led to the establishment of that body. There are also scores of students who have never stopped to think of the evils which attend the system...
...Dodge's sketch of Benvenuto Cellini presents vividly some of the characteristic traits of that wonderful man whose history people are never tired of hearing. The writer's style is, it is almost needless to say, pure and vivacious. Well-chosen anecdotes of Benvenuto's life, interspersed with sagacious criticism, make this piece of character study extremely interesting...
...other, and it is our duty to find it out. Students at college are continually coming into doubt as to the faiths, but let them hold firmly to their blind faiths at the same time that they are active in their search for truth in the various walks of life. Whatever our faiths are, let us lead true, noble lives; let us be gentlemen at least. The choir sang anthems by Kent and Buck, also the hymn "Lead Kindly Light," by Calkin...
...auspices of the New England Intercollegiate Press Association. The first article, which will appeal most to Harvard men, is contributed by Dr. E. E. Hale, and is entitled "Harvard Reminiscences of Fifty Years ago." It contains a brief but very interesting account of the position of clubs in college life half a century ago, and sketches of Edward Tyrrel Channing, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Jared Sparks; and it also points out the difference which the closer communication between Cambridge and Boston has effected. "From My Attic Window" is an ambitious attempt at description by "A Harvard Junior." The literary portion...