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Seymour I. Hudgens of the sophomore class, known to all Harvard men as a member of the Harvard crews of 1881 and 1882, was the class poet at Phillips Exeter Academy two years ago. He had written considerable poetry before that time and has written some since. A portion of his poetry has been selected, out of which Moses King will make a handsome little volume of 114 pages, entitled "Exeter, School-days and Other Poems." The work has been examined by John Boyle O'Reilly of Boston, Prof. Francis J. Child and the Rev. F. H. Hedge of Cambridge...
...evening of the day on which the game took place to our freshmen. The last issue of the Courant, however, contained an editorial excusing them somewhat. This editorial is as follows : "We think the Lit's strictures in regard to the conduct of the Harvard freshmen, two weeks ago, a trifle uncalled for. If any, our own freshmen should be held responsible for what seemed, perhaps, cheeky on the part of our Harvard friends. It may have been poor taste on the part of the latter to act as they did. It certainly was; yet who but our own freshmen...
Oscar Wilde said a few days ago that he considered Yale men very rude. He thinks that if Yale would pattern after Harvard more closely it would be in every respect a much better university...
...demands serious attention. How unfortunate and unpleasant it is can be appreciated fully by only those who met with the loss. The experience has been so expensive that it is to be hoped that the profit derived from it will be in reasonable proportion to the expenditure. Some months ago, almost every day it was found necessary to chronicle considerable thefts at the gymnasium, but by due care the evil was finally removed, for all time let it be hoped. The authorities of the boat-house owe it to all interested to exert every effort to detect the criminals...
...must be an astonishing reflection to the younger generation of Englishmen that the famous university men of fifty years ago, whom they constantly hear praised, had not the smallest tincture of science, The Oxford men - Newman, Manning and Arnold - knew nothing of it. The Cambridge man, Darwin, when at school, which was a principal feeder of Cambridge, heard his pursuits described by the head master as the cultivation of 'stinks' - which, indeed, became the popular university term for them." - [St. James' Gazette...