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...paper near at hand which gave the account of it. Last year a German university - Heidelberg I think - attained a ripe age among the hundreds. The thousands of students, under several committees, got up a big costume procession after the manner of the Trades-Unions processions of the olden time. The characteristic incidents in the history of the University were represented - the different college societies and organizations of to-day were illustrated by their members - and whether the faculty marched themselves or were personified by the students, I really have forgotten. We have here in Harvard the men, plenty...
...organization of college students like the Shakspere club. Such a presentation would involve a return to the original text of the play and to the traditional methods of acting of Shak-spere's time. All scenery, moreover, would be done away with, except the simple devices which, in the olden time, formed the stock in trade of the strolling companies of actors, who then maintained the drama...
...This regulation and one forbidding students to walk up the river in the morning, and another forbidding students to walk on "The High" in study hours, without cap and gowns, are relics of the old system of police regulations which used to exist in all colleges and universities in olden times. These last two regulations are what we might call dead letters on the Oxford statute book; no observance is paid to them. These are good examples of a certain class of petty rules and regulations in existence, but never enforced at Oxford...
Rogers, besides being college president and poet, was a preacher, physician, linguist and scientist ; a fair representative of the versatility required of college presidents in "ye olden time...
...Quarterly has the following in regard to "ye olden time" : "The spring of 1844 seems a queer old time, as I recall it now. Yale was to us the great seat of learning of the world. Rivalry with Harvard had not been thought of, and in fact we knew too little and heard too rarely of the Cambridge school, to take even a languid interest in its welfare...