Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class, but I hope with constant application to obtain a detur if my health holds out. It gives me great pleasure to inform you that your fears in regard to the depravity of Harvard life were entirely groundless. I have seen nothing of the immorality of which we read in the columns of the Middlebury Monitor. Of the success of the higher education for women here, I can speak only words of praise. The young women of the Annex, as well as those of Cambridge in general, are most interesting and intelligent persons. A Miss Antique, who has lately taken...
PROFESSOR LANMAN will read three times a week with his classes in Sanskrit during the Semi-annuals, omitting the customary examination...
...thus boldly stated. . . . The current number of the Princetonian is one of the best we have yet seen; but the Acta has not yet been forgiven for its wit at Princeton's expense. We are constantly obliged to quarrel with the taste and judgment of the Acta; nevertheless, we read and are amused, and welcome it gladly from week to week. . . . The Niagara Index is distressed at the condition of affairs in Oberlin, and the Review is disposed to resent the insults of its cotemporary, - very properly, as we think. But the Index can at least claim to be amusing...
...color. Walked home with Miss S. Mighty fine girl! Left for Boston by night train. Had rather dull journey. Was squeezed into a seat with a fat woman as far as New Haven. How much pleasanter and nobler life would be if all monstrosities were kept out of sight! Read "Endymion" nearly half through, and think it splendid. So racy and refined! How much nicer it is to read of lords, &c., than the common herd! I hate snobs...
...literary magazine in college can be a success, the Nassau (Princeton) must claim the palm. We confess it is the only publication of the sort which we can read with interest; although, doubtless, the magazine form has many advantages. Princeton is still very bitter toward Yale on the championship question; the Princetonian accumulates quotations to prove the consistency of her position. The Acta Columbiana cheers for Yale, and one by one the colleges come into line on one side or the other; all of which is doubtless calculated to preserve good feeling. The Acta calls, for April 15, a meeting...