Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...STORY. By J. S. of Dale. C. Scribner's Sons, New York." "Guerndale" is not a book we would advise callow freshmen to send home to their loving "mamas" that they may get an idea of what we do at Harvard. About one-fourth of the book is a sketch of life at Harvard, and as the work of a Harvard man the entire book may be taken to represent in a certain sense the spirit of Harvard. However it only represents a certain "set" at Harvard. This is a fault common to most college books. An outsider...
...still, although we acknowledge the truth of the sketch as far as it goes, it does not go far enough. It is not fair for a writer to attempt to give an account of such an institution as Harvard and then give only one side of it. Of course the book is not professedly an account of every phase of life in the university; but the fact that it takes the matter up at all would require that some slight mention at least be made of other sets besides that which Bixby and Symonds cultivated. For there is another...
This pleasing and laughter-provoking sketch book of Harvard doings has, for more than a year, been out of print. During this time the demand for it has increased, and, to meet this demand, a new edition is now proposed, provided a sufficient number of copies is guaranteed. This book is a series of pictures of college life, and one, too, that is ever interesting to look over. The edition will be limited, and, in order to secure a copy of the work, it will be necessary to place your name upon the subscription list, which can be found...
...following biographical sketch of President Noah Porter of Yale is from the Era: "President Porter is the son of a Connecticut minister, and was born in 1811. He was graduated from Yale in 1831, and, after some years spent in teaching and preaching, returned in 1846 to take the chair of Metaphysics which he has ever since held. In 1871 he succeeded Dr. Woolsey as president of the college. With the exception of his "Books and Reading" and his "American Colleges" and "The American Public," nearly all of Dr. Porter's books are upon metaphysical themes. But the work which...
...representatives of some seven or eight Massachusetts bicycle clubs around Boston, entitled "A Wheel around the Hub," which many will remember was brought out about two years ago in Scribner's. In the next issue a history of the above-mentioned article will be given, with a sketch of each one who participated...