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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale her Tochteranstalt. These are almost the only true statements which he makes. His pictures of college life are even falser than the Herald's, and must have been taken from "Student Life at Harvard" or derived from a correspondence with Dr. F-h-b-r. Here is one of the conversations...
...able to do full justice to the lectures. And indeed their aesthetic eye is only too apt to be offended. Here is a man with a high collar; there, another with a low; then there are students with square cuffs, and round cuffs, and no cuffs at all. One persists in parting his hair on the side; another, in parting it in the middle. Indeed, it is impossible for any unanimity to exist as long as such barbarous customs prevail...
...remedy, we are happy to say, is at hand. "The Harvard Clothing Store" will relieve future professors from all confusion. It is intended that every student shall have the privilege of clothing himself there, but no student is to be compelled to do so; only, any one who does not wear the college costume will not be regarded as a student. The regulation coat consists of red serge, cut in long-tailed frock pattern, and having on the back, in large gold lines, the inevitable shield of the University, with "In Vino Veritas" plainly stamped thereupon. The waistcoat...
Monitors and professors are to use the bell-punch. Each student, at the beginning of the year, will be provided with prayer slips and recitation slips, which will be duly punched, and must be shown to every one who demands...
...word "absence" is rather arbitrary, and for that very reason deserves to be remarked. "Absence from a recitation" is taken as the unit of censure by which all failures, enumerated in section 30, to perform duties, are measured. All failures to attend church or prayers are referred to "one absence from prayers" as an unit of censure, five of which are equivalent to one absence from church. Censure marks are, therefore, wholly dispensed with, and "absences" take their place. Seniors and Juniors, since they have voluntary recitations, will not be allowed so many "absences" as Sophomores and Freshmen. The proportion...