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...needful that she herself stand as an example of what is the best; she must be for us an ideal. In part, to be sure, she does fulfill this calling; but in part she fails. As the oldest college of our country, more sentiment and tradition has gathered around her name, than around any other. She has come down to us as a heroine out of the past. For two centuries and a half she has stood for something of the greatest worth; and we believe that in time to come she will be the same...
...true of Harvard, though less true of any other college in our land. Yet if we are to have that feeling of love and reverence for her, which the Englishman has for Oxford, she must become, in some sense, a "Queen of Romance" to wage war against the sordidness around; she must become a "home of lost causes, unpopular names, and impossible loyalties...
...usually the same night, at some hotel in Boston. Class Day was the last day of the term. The vacation of six weeks commenced at once, and Commencement came immediately after vacation. There had gradually grown up, however, by the side of Valedictory Day a new custom of dancing around the Liberty Tree, (the present class tree). As soon as dinner was over, all the undergraduates began to assemble around the tree and in the back rooms of Hollis and Stoughton. The seniors provided punch in a barrel, and brandy and water in pails, which were placed at the foot...
...News complains that a recent article in the New York World gravely misrepresents the prevailing tone at Yale. The piece in question is but one sample of these elaborately fanciful tales of student life which are floating around in the papers. Yale happens to be the victim this time. Harvard's turn will come next; in fact, it is always Harvard's turn. Well known colleges are like public men; no story about them is so wildly absurd, that some journals will not print it, and many people believe it. And the bigger the lie is, the more eagerly...
...never tasted the pleasures of vice, who perhaps does not know that such pleasures exist, or he who, knowing the pleasures, possibly even having some time enjoyed them, at length overcomes temptation? According to a milk-and-water standard of morality, the former is the better man, there hangs around him an air of immaculate purity, wings might become him. But is not the latter really morally higher; does he not have more of sturdy manliness...