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...dispute with the reviewer on Mr. Lowell's "absolute right to deal with Professor Masson as the Nation might deal with a Sophomore," but if he could see the well-attended readings at Harvard Hall he would find another evidence of the weakness of his assertion, and that we owe our love of literature not a little to Mr. James Russell Lowell...
...cannot help being "satisfactory to the most ardent friend of Brown or the dullest intellect": first, one of their best men could not row, for reasons not made public, and of course they would not send a crew which did not contain all "their best men"; and secondly, they owe "quite a sum" for last year's expenses, and wisely consider that it is best to incur no new debts until the old ones are paid...
Class of '76, at 15 percent, owe $300- $76 subscribed...
Class of '75, at 15 percent, owe...
...undertook to write out their own lives, but, not knowing what to put down, they often ran off into stories of college scrapes and nonsense, that the sober sense of ten years later impelled them to cut out and destroy. After this, Mr. Sibley, to whom we really owe the reform and building up of this practice, undertook, in the year 1849, to see every man in each graduating class, and request him to write out a biography under his direction. In 1856, when he accepted the position of Librarian, he took pains to hand to each successive Class Secretary...