Word: true
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SERIES of papers on American student-life have appeared in Die Gegenwart. The author, Mr. Otto Gross, selecting Harvard as the representative college, calls her the oldest and most renowned of American colleges, and Yale her Tochteranstalt. These are almost the only true statements which he makes. His pictures of college life are even falser than the Herald's, and must have been taken from "Student Life at Harvard" or derived from a correspondence with Dr. F-h-b-r. Here is one of the conversations...
Like a band of brothers true...
...true that the occupants of Weld are expected, in case of fire, to use the fire-escape on Matthews...
...elation of some parents at their sons' supposed rise, - whose disappointment would be most bitter if they were not undeceived till Commencement, - and the regret of others at their sons' apparent falling off. There is no need of pointing out that justice should be done to the students, and true information given to their parents, without any delay...
...undesirable, such a price is simply out of all proportion. As a result, there are now vacant nineteen rooms in this one building; for no one - not even a Freshman - will pay so dear, when he can be much more comfortably lodged elsewhere for half the price. This is true, not of this building alone, but of nearly all those owned by the University, which through the years of hard times has not abated its price in the least. Consequently the number of students who room outside the Yard is annually increasing, and it will not be surprising...