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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...modern student when he thinks of his class thinks of his society. He will no doubt remember a few men whom he has casually met in recitations or elsewhere, but he will forget the existence of numbers whose paths have deviated from his own. If he is not a member of a society, his class associations will be nothing more than reminiscences of a limited circle of personal friends. The elective system, in fact, has destroyed the sentiment of class feeling which was so strong at Harvard during the last generation. Our own class traditions can hardly be distinguished from...
...colleges have taken hold of the subject energetically, and their rifle-clubs are looking around among their graduates for suitable men to coach them. Columbia claims Colonel Gildersleeve, and Williams will probably call on Mr. Orange Judd. The Forest and Stream also offers "to a college rifle-club, a member of which will furnish us with the best appropriate design for a vase or shield, a gold badge, to be shot for among themselves: said design to be engraved and printed in this paper as soon as accepted, due credit being given to the designer...
...societies are limited in number, and are frequently assembled at meetings. In the course of a few months every member is sufficiently intimate with his fellows to be able to pronounce upon their merits, and to declare intelligently their fitness or unfitness for the various offices which it is necessary to fill...
...college societies are limited in numbers, and their constitutions are such that an election to any one of them is a decided honor, - is a certificate of the possession of certain qualities which tend to fit a man for a prominent position. The members of these societies are elected with great care, and usually with great deliberation. Each class admits from the class which follows a few men, chosen with care from among the entire body of their classmates. These few men meet together from time to time, and elect others from their own class to join them, forming...
PHILIP ALLEN POST, formerly a member of the present Junior Class, died in Newport on Sunday, December 26, of typhus fever. A few of his friends knew of his dangerous illness, but the announcement of his death was a shock for which no one was fully prepared. Although he was in Cambridge but little over a year and a half, he was universally known and was universally liked. The death of any one at twenty-one years of age is always an unusually sad event, but the death of one so bright, so generous, so uniformly good-natured as Allen...