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BOSTON THEATRE. - "The Black Hussar...
BOSTON THEATRE. - "The Black Hussar...
BOSTON THEATRE. - "The Black Hussar...
Massachusetts was then in part a dormitory and the basement of Harvard was used for recitation rooms. Here James Russell Lowell heard classes and lectured on his favorite topics. In Holden, on warm days, the adhesive black-painted benches used to hold the students in fixed attention during lectures and render rapid departure impossible...
Probably the most marked change in college discipline has come in the matter of personal direction which was then supposed to take the place of parental discipline. One of the many rules laid down was that every undergraduate must wear a black coat on Sundays. Disobedience to this law incurred nearly the same punishment as drunkenness or any of the other capital crimes. The narrator remembers a circumstance in connection with the rule which is worth repeating. One of his friends, a quiet and studious young man, not knowing the regulation, had provided himself before entering college with a Sunday...