Word: sons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...paper, and the joke (?) attached reminds us in its lucidity of some of the recent editorials in the News. The initial letters on the next two pages, particularly the B, and the fantastic drawing illustrating the emotions of the anxious paterfamilias on the receipt of letters from his son and from the faculty, are quite good. The merit of this last picture would lead us, however, to expect better work from its artist, Mr. Case, than the picture he offers us later on "Politeness as a Fine Art." The other pictures are fair, although we suggest to the artist...
...last Saturday, April 5th, Ruluff S. Choate, of the freshman class, died very suddenly of apoplexy at his home in New York. He was present at college until the end of the term, when he left Cambridge to join his family. He was the eldest son of Mr. Joseph H. Choate, president of the Harvard alumni. Ruluff Choate was widely known in his class and the news of his death will cause sorrow to a large circle of friends...
...Craddock. Mr. Crawford's serial, "A Roman Singer," and Dr. Mitchell's "In War Time" both have two new chapters; and Henry James contributed another of his French travel papers, this time describing Avignon and Orange. Prof. Shaler discusses "The Red Sunsets" and their probable cause. Oliver T. Morton, son of the late Senator Morton of Indiana, writes about "Presidential Nominations;" Maria Louise Henry contributes a sketch of Madame de Longueville. Bradford Torrey has an interesting bird article, entitled "Phillida and Coridon;" while the Contributors' Club has some delightful extracts from a "Rhymed Letter" by James Russell Lowell, not included...
...current number of the Bay State Monthly contains an article on "Early Harvard," and a short sketch of the life of Col. Fletcher Webster, the son of Daniel Webster, who graduated from Harvard in the class...
...first in which the names of the students of Harvard College appeared in alphabetical order. Before that date the students of each class were arranged in order, according to the rank which their parents held in the social world. A good story is told of a shoe maker's son who came to Harvard. When asked as to what station his father held in life, he replied that he held a position on the bench. The student was accordingly ranked among the upper men of his class...