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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stains, books, a few chairs, a bed, mugs of various sizes and fantastic devices-these constitute the principle bric-a-brac. The odor of stale tobacco prevades everything. Excepting as a mere resting-place the student seldom uses his room. HE is a Bohemian to the core. You may oftenest find him in a beer-shop, discussing obstruse, metaphysical problems through clouds of tobacco smoke, or at the kneipe of his dueling-corps, shouting glees over beer and pretzels until morning. Thence he steals away in the early dawn to strain his eyes over pages of fine German print...
...with the ordinary run of books founded on American college life. The best of these before the appearance of "Guerndale" was undoubtedly "Hammersmith," but this dealt with the one set of college society which has always furnished materials for such books in all countries. The young men who have oftenest formed the heroes of these novels belong to the class called "sappy" and give but a poor idea of the flesh and blood which is to be found in colleges as well as elsewhere. Whatever other objections may be urged to "Guerndale," however, nothing can be said against...
...Princeton and Harvard bear off the undisputed palm for rowdyism and boorishness.' As for Princeton, we will say nothing; but, as between Harvard and Yale, on a question of rowdyism, Yale will take the cake. The Harvard boys have a great spirit of fun, but nowadays it is oftenest vented in bits of revelry that harm no one, but which, on the other hand, make everybody laugh. The demonstration of the students at Music Hall last evening, furnishes a case in point." Taken as a whole, the Boston papers expressed themselves with much greater fairness than has characterized their utterances...