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...College Library has lately received from Dr. S. A. Green, Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a copy of Virgil "ad usum Delphini," printed in London in 1:40, which has served four generations of Harvard graduates as a text book; it bears the school-boy autographs of its last three owners, while the name of the first owner has been written by another, presumably by his father. The successive users of the book were Joshua Green, of the Class of 1749, his son Joshua, of the class of 1784, his grandson Joshua, of the class...
...decided not to answer the CRIMSON'S editorial of December 22, because we know how the school-boy lispings in its editorial columns have been regarded by the University at large, but as our indifference was mistaken for submission to a censorship, and our silence for a confession of guilt, we feel compelled to put our case before the University...
...first place it is an insinuation that there is a lack of debating interest in the Senior class; yet no class has manifested greater interest in debating or furnished more 'Varsity debaters than the present Senior class. In the second place, the punishment for the so-called school-boy antics of the Seniors will fall on members of the present Junior class. It is only fair to suppose that there is a goodly number of 1901 men who wish a debating course in their Senior year. To such men the withdrawal of such a privilege on account of acts...
John Corbin '92, is the author of "School-boy Life in England," just issued by Harper and Bros., New York City, This is a most attractive volume and will be of especial interest to Harvard men and to men in the preparatory schools of this country. Mr. Corbin, it may be remembered, spent a year after graduation as a student at Oxford and later he made another trip to England, spending the summer there and living successively at the several great public schools...
...Corbin describes vividly and from the American point of view, life at Winchester, Eton, Rugby, and some of the other great schools. He indicates the points of difference between the English public schools and the American preparatory schools, and points out clearly those characteristics of the English public schools that have impressed their individuality upon the leaders in English literary and public life. "School-boy Life in England" is handsomely illustrated. This is the second book that Mr. Corbin has published since his graduation...