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...President and Tutors were authorized to break open a student's door at any time they were refused admittance, and the same officers could summon a sort of "posse comitatus" of the students to quell disturbances about the college. "None belonging to the college, except the President and Fellows, etc., shall by threats or blows compel a freshman * * * to any duty of obedience." "No undergraduate shall keep a gun or pistol in the college or anywhere in Cambridge." Provisions are also made against students fighting. With the conservatism and foresight which ever characterized the fathers of the college, these regulations...
...severest penalties were inflicted on any nun who broke her vow to Vesta. The reverence which even the early Christians felt for this order is shown by the fact that when the Temple of the goddess was confiscated, none of the ornaments or decorations were injured...
...indifference in the preparatory schools, disorder among the students, lack of sympathy in the Faculty, and bitter personal opposition out of the Faculty. He has established a department which does not pretend to be remarkably scholarly, but which does its best with the problem before it, a problem that none but men who do not teach English have ever solved to their own satisfaction. Loaded down with undergraduate literature, making many mistakes of method in instruction where all methods are as yet experimental, the English Department works on; and feels year by year more gratitude to the critic at once...
...followers of its past teaching. If it is to be revived in the form of a Shakspere Conference, it is, as Dr. Johnson says, "already dead." If it is to present a series of public Shaksperian recitals, it is incapable of accomplishing such work satisfactorily. Few desire its revival; none desires to create in it another opportunity for such a ludicrous and preposterous exhibition of inane and cheap acting as was thrust upon the university two years ago in the form of "A Presentation of Julius Caesar by the Harvard Shakspere Club...
...each other what it was all about, and why Dr. McCosh couldn't have eaten his dinner in peace as the boys do in the old refectory - if that blessed old refectory is still in the land of the living, and then we turned one to another and said: "None of us ever heard of Edwards stamping his iron heel. In our days we could hardly hear the patter of Dr. McLean's gum shoes...