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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this side of the water. Not only does it promote acquaintance and a friendly feeling among men from different parts of the country, but it should also tend to improve our records, and eventually make them equal, or even surpass, those of the English Universities. The spirit of competition ought to draw out the best efforts of the representatives of each college, and the honor of winning in such a contest should be sufficient incentive for hard training on the part of those who intend to enter. The "Relay Race" is especially attractive, and we hope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...Nassau Lit. is the best of the monthlies, with an excellent article on Goldsmith, a well-written, though rather sensational story, a very good critical article on Shakspere's two methods of suggesting time, as shown in Othello, and several short pieces on different subjects. The editors think we ought to have some new college songs, in which desire every one will agree with them who has the misfortune to room next to a Freshman who thinks "Naughty Clara" is the latest thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...lend their assistance. If any men intend to try at all, they should not put off training until the spring. That would be a risky experiment, as well as being unfair to those who go to work in the autumn. Three years of victory - earned by perseverance and energy - ought to set a fitting example for those who would win in future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...Boston for a week or two past, and, if all the reports are true, the students from Harvard College have formed no inconsiderable part of the audience. . . . If there is not discipline enough in the College to keep the students in their rooms, the parents of the young men ought to know that they are out, and govern themselves accordingly." We are used to the misrepresentations of Harvard in the Herald, but, really, a paper like the Watchman, which pretends to respectability, ought to know better. We wish that the Boston clergymen would "agitate" the editor until he knows enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...price has been purposely placed within the reach of all, and let us, therefore, as students, promptly do our share towards the support of the enterprise. Harvard, so prominent in all else pertaining to culture, with such a large community, and so excellent an auditorium as Sanders Theatre, ought to allow no winter to pass without a set of concerts. We therefore urge men to secure seats at once, that the enterprise may not fail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

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