Word: socials
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publishers announce that "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge" will endure as long as Harvard College maintains its influence on surrounding social life, and humor continues to be an American characteristic...
...aptly termed "sly." The subjects chosen are always unpretending, the metres used are appropriate and handled with a pleasant facility, and the execution of nearly every piece is felicitous and successful. The book throughout is pervaded with the genuine college spirit of our day in treating of all social subjects - a mild Horatian cynicism of a modern tinge. And yet the chief praise we can give to the volume is to say that it is thoroughly readable; it is not dull as so many of the attempts of college writers at social satire are apt to be. The following...
...chosen from the Columbia Spectator, a college paper with a humorous corner or corners, compares well with the larger and more heterogeneous collection of designs from the Lampoon. There is more chic and a higher average quality in the drawing. Politics are altogether eschewed in favor of collegiate and social topics. The legends are noticeably good...
...mean to dream, Harvard College is the best place for you. A college-bred man in America must wince in all his business, even in his social relations - in short, he must go through life holding his nose...
...noticeable that the growing influence of college life on the social life surrounding our great universities, seems at last to be gaining a distinct recognition in literature, and especially among modern novelists. One might almost hazard the statement that in fully one-half of the more important novels that have appeared from the press during the past year, some recognition of this fact might be found. The college man or the recent college graduate as either hero, villain or important character in novels, seems to be growing decidedly popular. Not only as heretofore is it common to find some...