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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...greatness of Cambridge, save as a university town, is fast passing away, if indeed its fame has ever been separable from of Harvard. As a city of revolutionary memories Cambridge of course if famous. As for a long time the home of two of the greatest American poets it is everywhere known. But its fame in this last respect certainly, has been principally due to the college, for it was as professors at Harvard that much of the lives of both Mr. Lowell and the late Prof. Long fellow were passed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/7/1884 | See Source »

...schools of law and medicine, there is essentially no prescribed course. The university is also open to all comers without the formality of examination; the rigorous mid-term and final lests being relied upon to keep the scasses weeded. It is another singular feature of the regime that, save the long summer intermission, there is no vacation, nor a single holiday with the exception of Christmas. Thanksgiving, New year's, Washington's birthday are simply the last Thursday in November, January 1, and February 22, to the stern calendar in vogue here, and Saturday shines not as a holiday. Even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A QUAINT OLD COLLEGE. | 1/3/1884 | See Source »

...have a dressing gown made at Cambridge or at home; and the pedagogue quite agrees with her ladyship in her letter where she states : "Whether I think it were not amiss if you willed him to defer yet making up of it till his coming home, which may happily save yet which ye Taylor here made a reckoning to have had for his share...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY LIFE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. | 12/4/1883 | See Source »

...actually less than our team did although their defensive game was much more effective. Taking this into account if we were able to place our best team in the field we would have no need to despair of success. As it is, nothing but indomitable spirit and grit, can save us and the best wishes of the entire college go with the team that our men may be equal to the emergency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/28/1883 | See Source »

...deemed an objectionable manner. Visting the sins of last year on the good intentions of this by a warning is obviously not altogether as useful a scheme as a notification last year would have been. If the faculty would only take the proverbial stitch in time, it would save the student the oss of taking the other nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/23/1883 | See Source »

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