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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a curious article on "College Life" in the volume. Its thesis is this: "Our situation here is utterly unnatural; necessarily so, perhaps, but that it is so - that four or five hundred youth, collected from their homes, far and near, and housed together for four years, to read books and forget the world, are in a forced and unnatural state, is obvious." A thought that might seem startling, if one did not reflect that the same objection has stood for two centuries, and Harvard has not yet seen fit to abandon her theory of college organization. The writer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLIER HARVARD JOURNALISM. | 5/6/1882 | See Source »

...favor of extending it to juniors. Statistics show that the average age of entrance into Harvard is nineteen years; therefore the average age of a Harvard student, upon entering his junior year, is twenty-one years. Surely no one will argue that what is permitted to a mature youth of twenty-two must be denied to a tender stripling of twenty-one. Far more naturally, liberty of choice in this matter should be given when one arrives at his majority. Of course there is no peculiar charm or virtue in one age over another, but, as we have said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/1/1882 | See Source »

...department of table-talk, appearing with every issue, and fancifully named "Limon," are many interesting anecdotes and old-fashioned witticisms. "The usual time of the year in which the Roman youth assumed the toga virilis, or man's apparel," says the writer, "was when they first attended the feasts of Bacchus. Do the youth of modern days never attend the feasts of Bacchus before they have assumed the Toga Virilis?" An apothegm on "Hasty Writers" (transformed by some malicious reader before me to "Hasty-Pudding Writers!") is quoted here: "Little writers compose books apace; for naturalists observe that the less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLIER HARVARD JOURNALISM. | 4/25/1882 | See Source »

...peculiar characters. John, the fruit vender, has been a familiar object about college for one cannot tell how many years back; but there must have been a time when John was a brawny and ruddy emigrant from the old sod arriving at Castle Garden, full of the confidence of youth and Ireland. To every class now in college, at least, the mumbling, high-pitched tones of a voice crying, "Do you want any oranges, sorr?" have been long familiar. John is a philosopher in his way; as he himself says, he "has a good remembry," and while plodding his steady...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DO YOU WANT ANY FRUIT, SORR?" | 4/19/1882 | See Source »

...door sports during the last quarter of a century. It was something like fifty years ago that boat-racing became a feature of university pastimes, and it was distinctly the introduction of Eton boys, who took with them to Oxford and Cambridge this especially popular sport of their youth. The first races on the Cam were "bumping" races; that is, one boat started first, and if the following crew could run their bow into the stern of the other this was victory. This led to regular racing as now in vogue, though "bumping" contests are still engaged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 4/15/1882 | See Source »

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