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Many remarks have been made lately concerning the apparent change of tone in the Boston papers toward Harvard students. Last year they were wont to treat every little, thoughtless act with the utmost severity, as if it were premeditated, and were intended to shake the peace of the Commonwealth to its very foundation. Last year the freak of the freshmen at Oscar Wilde's lecture would have made the subject of editorials of the bitterest kind, denouncing not only the sixty "bold, bad men," but also the whole college. They now pass lightly over what last year would have been...
...Boston, the perennial Denman Thompson appears as Joshua Whitcomb. The house will be crowded at every performance, as is the wont whenever Mr. Thompson presents his laughable characterization of the New England farmer. Season after season he "continues to delight crowded audiences," as the show bill says, until it has become a wonder in the theatrical world, that a piece of such trifling character, or rather a conglomeration of such commonplace incidents, should meet with such uninterrupted success...
While Rev. Joseph Cook was a student in the Andover Theological Seminary he acquired the sobriquet of "Bucephalus" from the following circumstance: He was noted for using very flowery language. Taking his turn one Sunday in preaching before the students, as was their wont, he used the phrase, "Like the half-starved and famished bucephalus would ruminate among the verdant clover, so will our famished souls enjoy the ethereal mansions...
...from the cup the court were wont to drink...
...knocked down without the least ceremony. The indignant class rush forward to avenge their leader. Then one was deafened by the cries, - "At them, Freshies!" "Down with them, Sophs!" the Seniors urging on the Sophomores, and the Juniors the Freshmen. Soon the football was forgotten, and the game was wont to take the appearance of the traditional bloody rush. Usually the fight became so fierce that there was need of a band of proctors to clear the field. Often six or seven of the Sophs ruminated over this night's struggle for six months in some retired spot in Maine...