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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the past two years the college has been going through a literary revival. All the papers are showing marked ability. Their work, not only in quantity, but in excellence, is greater than it has been before within the memory of present undergraduates; while the competition for places on the various editorial boards is keener than ever...
...article in Monday's New York Herald on Yale "Athletes at Work" says that Harvard has in the past maintained greater secrecy in her methods than has Yale...
...exception they confound criticism with fault-finding, and, in many cases, go almost to the extent of abuse. The average man seems to think he is going to "get even" with the world at large and his instructors in particular - presumably for inappreciation of his own efforts in the past - by vigorous "sitting on" the work of some known or unknown classmate. Perhaps this large amount of ill nature, and what might be called literary dis-curtesy, has given rise to doubts in our instructors' minds as to the efficacy of the system...
...alumnus." But the evil work had been accomplished. Word had gone forth from our very doors that, religiously speaking, fair Harvard, to put it mildly, was rotten to the core. No words that might be uttered could avail. Jealous colleges, uttered the Pharasaical "Ah, ha!" Papers of which the past existence and actions had been anything but religious, caught the infection and sneered at that of which they knew nothing, and having used their war-worn phrases, passed them on to the Bungtown Clarion and sheets of a like stamp which flourish on the plains of Texas. According to this...
...would be present. The same comparison applies, in a less degree, to the attendance at the debates during 1884-85; the discussion of presidential candidates brought out a very large audience, but the remaining debates were not nearly so well attended as have been the regular debates of the past half-year, when no question of unusual public interest has been discussed...