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Dates: during 1870-1879
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COULD the Swan of Mantua visit Cambridge, he would have occasion to remark, in the words of the dog's-meat man, "Times is changed." Although the professors love their disciples, no doubt, as truly as did any pedagogue on the banks of the Po, we are no longer such a necessity to them during the dog-days as their mothers' milk, although in these days of Ridge's "Food for Infants" and competitive examinations for women, this article has gone sadly out of fashion. Any true advocate of progress would blush to remember that he had ever been aught...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINETY DEGREES IN THE SHADE.* | 6/13/1879 | See Source »

...glad to remark the increased interest of College men in these recitals; the large bulk of the audiences consisted of students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR PAINE'S RECITAL. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...exchanges. People of the new generation have introduced the new self-denial, - that of the fast of intellect; and were it not for events, which no one can control, and each other's business, which every one would like to control, there would not be much to remark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

...prove this last remark would require my entering into minute details, which would not interest your readers, and so I must content myself with the simple assertion that quite a number of little improvements which the New-Londoners had planned to make, for the benefit of the University crews of Harvard and Yale, will necessarily have to be abandoned in case any other crews are in practice at the same time upon the river. Having for a dozen years and more attended all the intercollegiate regattas at Worcester, Springfield, and Saratoga, and having carefully examined the causes which have invariably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROPOSED FRESHMAN RACE. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

...usually steady Junior class are said to be cutting recitations to such an extent as to seriously alarm the Faculty. The cause of this delinquency is the feeling which finds a vent in the remark, What is the good of having voluntary recitations if we do not use them? Using voluntary recitations, however, does not consist in cutting unnecessarily; that is abuse. The privilege is given us in order that we may judge for ourselves when it is necessary to absent ourselves, and we certainly ought to be capable of judging. But if we do not follow the dictates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

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