Word: winkley
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...November number of the Beta Theta Pi magazine, contains an article on Harvard, written by Mr. H. W. Winkley, a graduate of the class of '81. While an article of this sort written for the information of those who are utterly unacquainted with the college is always more or less in the nature of a guide book, still it is interesting to note at times what impressions a graduate has formed of his own college and also what things strike him as peculiarly characteristic of the college and worthy of mention...
...Winkley introduces his article by calling attention to the important bearing of the dormitory system on the social life of the college and proceeds to give a "guide-book" description of some of the principal dormitories. In connection with the matter of the expense of living at Harvard Mr. Winkley says: "Harvard has often been called an expensive place, and not unjustly so, in comparison with other colleges, among the leading items of expense being room-rent. Few rooms rent for less than sixty dollars a year, and in the better class of buildings, like Matthews, Weld, or Holyoke...
...discussed by members, offer their greatest attractions in the courses of lectures which are given under their auspices. Those, also, are usually interesting and well attended." We suppose these societies still exist, but no visible evidence of their existence has been offered to the public for some time. Mr. Winkley gives a great deal more information about Harvard but we will close with the following extract. "As to the immoral customs of Harvard, it has been the writer's privilege to see the inside life of most of the New England colleges, and it is said with pleasure that...
...Beta Theta Bi contains a poem on Heine by Chambers Baird, Jr., '82, and articles on Harvard by Henry W. Winkley, '81, and on George Hoodly by Eugene Wambaugh...