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Dates: during 1870-1879
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He was a remarkably fine mathematician. He took mathematics as an elective in the Junior year, and occasionally displayed his power by arriving at the same result with Professor Peirce by methods of his own. He was equally good in astronomy and physics. He was a good student in moral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAUNCEY WRIGHT AT HARVARD. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

I NOTICED in your last issue a very violent tirade against everybody in general except the writer, who signs himself X' 81. I have not troubled myself by reading the communication from his "undexterous classmate." While X' 81 complains of being sneered at by the upper classes, he does what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

YOUR last issue contained an answer, by one signing himself "X'81," to the proposal for the formation of a Freshman Glee Club. We presume by the tone of this correspondence that the author has evidently been maltreated by the Lords of Creation (Sophomores). We also wish this gentleman to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM THE THOUGHTLESS FRESHMAN. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

ALL those who have had the benefit of Professor Baxter's instructions in Elocution during the past three months must be sorry, on his account, for the cause, and on their own, for the fact of his temporary absence. Mr. Baxter not only was interested in his work, but he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

Then I walked slowly back to College, wondering which was right, and thinking of the dear ones at home, and of the happy Christmas we 'd had, and of the happy days to come. "After all," thought I, "we are here to work, not to play; and when the work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT TWO FATHERS THOUGHT. | 1/11/1878 | See Source »

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