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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...NEPHEW of Col. Ingersoll has been severely hazed at Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/8/1878 | See Source »

...travel and study previous to entering the Law School. He can't be admitted to the bar till he is twenty-seven at least; and yet he don't seem to think he has been wasting his time. The young man whose room in Stoughton my nephew borrowed for his Class Day told me that he had got ninety-five per cent in his college course, and that he intended to study for a Ph. D. Besides, our neighbor Mrs. Beacon Street told me the other day that her son Harry, just after his last examinations, got permission from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT THE SENIOR SAID. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...often been struck with the number of epithets that are applied to our University. As each person's opinion differs, so does his epithet. A fond mother declares that Cambridge is a horrid place (whatever that may mean) for young men. A maiden aunt, who has heard of her nephew's troubles, that it is as much as a boy's life is worth to go to such a college, and that she would not send a son there if she had one. A father, that it has great advantages, but is frightfully expensive. Our young lady friend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IS HARVARD A HOLE? | 2/9/1877 | See Source »

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