Word: says
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Transcript quotes an incident of Soldene's performance at the Globe. Two ladies, we are informed, were obliged by the conduct of Harvard men to leave the house. It is safe to say, that if they were ladies the conduct of those on the stage would have driven them from their seats sooner than the behavior of students in the auditorium...
...extreme sourness - not to say impertinence - with which this agrarian inveighs against Harvard contempt and Cambridge conservatism makes one almost irresistibly infer that he has been - to say nothing of his deserts - a sufferer from both the one and the other...
...club crews. They have been taught to row in such bad form and on such wrong principles that, on becoming candidates for the University, they are actually at a disadvantage when compared with the tyros. To obviate this, the captain of the University authorizes us to say, that he will be most glad to teach the captains of the several clubs the stroke adopted by his crew, that they may this year be able to properly coach their men and render them of permanent use. Moreover, as a coxswain has now become a part of the University crew, we must...
...readers of the College papers are told every week that Harvard College is not a university: some writers say that she is fast becoming one; others, that, at her present rate of progress, she will never reach the standard signified by that mystifying word. I say mystifying, for I think that the Harvard students have very cloudy notions as to what is meant by a university. Far be it from me to insinuate that those who use the term do not know what they are talking about; but they take it for granted too easily that the rest...
...course, could see that in the society into which you had been received in New England Buoy would be quite out of place. But Neophogen is not Boston. At Neophogen Buoy was the best obtainable, and a useful man to know - I do not think I need say any more on the score of acquaintances. Only keep this simple rule in mind: if you desire to be a man of fashion, do not neglect the Buoys and the Stickers of society wherever you happen to meet them...