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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...saw the social eminence the graduate attains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SARCASM OF DESTINY.* | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

...borrowed a green necktie from a Freshman friend next door, and set forth. Arriving at my destination, I succeeded in forcing a way through an immense crowd of the faithful with what clothing a reasonable man would expect to have left at such a time. Once in, I saw around me all sorts and conditions of people. There were men with collars and without neckties, and vice versa; women with beards, and women with elbows seemingly enlarged for the time; women with bandaged faces, and women without, but bearing marks of one life-long toothache. What I particularly noticed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT HIGH MASS. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

...vision's light saw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE PICTURE. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

WHEN the class of '74 was in college, the characteristic feature of Harvard life was the formation of societies. It was then that the Cricket Club and the Athletic Association came into being. The same period saw the birth of Le Cercle Francais, the Chess Club, and the Foot Ball Club; while the College Telegraph Company, which has since been metamorphosed into the College Telephone Company, does not date from an earlier epoch. Several of these organizations have ceased to have any real existence as societies, or even any nominal existence in the Index; but if the energetic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PROGRESSIVE AGE. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

Fool I was! I saw my blunder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN VACATION. | 1/11/1878 | See Source »

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