Word: transcript
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HARVARD College has its Transcript, and the University of Michigan its Christian Advocate. Our Western brothers have already been accused of irreligion; "experto crede," the charge of immorality will come next; - and as the Chronicle devotes four columns to its defence on the first head, the second, being far more comprehensive, will probably call forth a supplement to the next number. This will prove the converse of "parturiunt montes"; the ridiculous and insignificant charge will bring forth a mountain of argument. The Chronicle editors, however, should learn wisdom from us, and fight the war in the enemy's country...
...solution of the problem of the origin of evil has been furnished by a correspondent of the Transcript, who says that immorality at Harvard is due to electives in Philosophy...
...order to get a chance to see a notice which, when I do see it, tells me that my examinations all come in the same week. Highly gratified by this pleasing announcement, I go to lunch, to be entertained with the eternal talk about J. Cook and the Boston Transcript, the same remarks that I have heard every day for a week. By this time I am pretty well disgusted with life, and rush away from lunch to cool my body and my temper with a sherbet at Belcher's. Here I am met by a classmate, who talks about...
...most of our readers are acquainted with the circumstances of the case, we will not enter into them, but that so flagrant an exhibition of cruelty and rowdyism should pass among us without notice would justify the accusations of a low standard of morality which writers in the Transcript have striven so hard to substantiate. The individuals who were concerned in the affair are liable to prosecution for cruelty to animals, but they will probably escape the punishment they so richly deserve. They cannot, however, avoid the judgment of public opinion, which must refuse the title of gentlemen to persons...
...entry-book is well filled; and we hope to see a large and fashionable attendance of our fair friends at the Park, where they will find better accommodation than we could have offered them on Jarvis. We trust the result of the meeting may show, in spite of the Transcript, that the youth of Harvard, the flower of the country, has not yet entirely run to seed...