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Dates: during 1870-1879
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If you have any business, never speak of it out of business hours. Change your clothes when your work is over. I have known some ordinarily stupid men to be witty in evening dress. Pick up all the information that comes in your way. Reading, I know, is often a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

As I have already said, rowing is a science, and must be studied as such. Now, if a man wants to acquire a profession, does he not go to the headquarters of that profession, be they at home or abroad? Certainly he does. Where are the headquarters of rowing? Decidedly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 12/4/1876 | See Source »

A GRADUATE of Harvard, who has attained some eminence, recently expressed it as his opinion that graduates of Harvard were less likely to attain distinction in after life than those of the smaller colleges. As a reason for this belief he referred to the fact that no Harvard graduate of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARDER WORK. | 11/3/1876 | See Source »

WE have received from the Class Secretary the statistics of the class of '76, the most interesting parts of which are given below. At present it is impossible to determine the exact percentage out of the class to be allotted to each profession, there being now so many undecided men...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STATISTICS OF THE SENIOR CLASS. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

Mr. Sedgwick passed most of his earlier years at Lenox, in Massachusetts. He was then sent to a Swiss school, and afterwards to St. Paul's School, at Concord, New Hampshire. He had devoted himself to the profession of law, and perhaps his strongest ambition was to do well in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBITUARY. | 3/10/1876 | See Source »

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