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...books that the library possesses on "Chinese" Gordon have been taken out, probably by studious sophomores for the preparation of the second theme...
Yale, Harvard, and the many other colleges of masculine propensities are not the only institutions at which the political excitement of the present year has risen to a feverish height. From recent reports we learn that the staid and studious halls of Vassar have been the scenes of many noisy and turbulent partisan demonstrations. Strange to say, however, the fair politicians have not rallied in support of Belva Lock-wood, as one would most naturally suppose. The college has divided on purely party lines, one contingent arraying itself under the banner of the G. O. P., the other, and smaller...
...casting has just been completed at the works of Bounard at New York. The face of the statute is necessarily an ideal one as no representation of Harvard is extant. All that is known of him, on which to work, are the facts that he was young, studious and a dissenting minister...
...celebrate this occasion with becoming ceremonies. With the noble simplicity characteristic of an intensely democratic community all the pomp and show which might mark such an occasion in any of the effete despotisms of a foreign civilization, was yesterday heroically dispensed with at Harvard. With tense brows and studious, downcast look. professors and students could be seen pacing the gravel-strewn walks of the yard, intent no doubt in recalling the glorious deeds of the father of his country, first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. How much better is such an observance...
...found it long and dry." The next day he went to the chapel, where Barnwell and Emerson took part on valedictory exercises before all the scholars and a number of ladies. They were rather poor, and did but little honor to the class." Emerson was quiet in manner, studious, little given to the rude sports of his comrades. "His mind was unusually mature and independent. His letters and conversation already displayed something of originality." He owed much to his early developed, and assiduously followed, habit of wide and careful reading; and he "spent much of his time in special courses...