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Harvard College (and its eminency in this misbehavior is only aggravated by its eminency in other scolastic virtues) undertakes not to make orators and succeeds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Duty to the Country. | 12/20/1886 | See Source »

...efforts on the part of the yard authorities, that most objectionable element of Cambridge society, an element the thought of which means quite as much as the name, has besieged the college dormitories. And here for its labors this objectionable element finds opportunities for the grossest kind of misbehavior, and accepts them most assiduously. What it can put its hands on, it takes; what it can destroy, it destroys; what does not suit its degraded taste it very soon tones down to that taste by its own peculiar processes. And so property is stolen, doors are marred and smeared hallways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/14/1885 | See Source »

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