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...like children they begin to feel and act like men. The two great students' organizations, the Harvard Dining Association and the Harvard Co-operative Society, are evidences that the Harvard undergraduate is pretty well able to take care of himself. He had grumbled at the size of his book and coal bills long enough, and when the way to reduce them was pointed out to him he took...
Latin Readings. The Story of the Love of Aeneas. Vergil's Aene d, Book IV. Mr. C. P. Parker. Sever...
...main contents of the visitors room are huge folios which are "not to be handled without permission. "By way of relics, there is a brand new book carved out of a piece of wood taken from the Washington Elm. On the back is a picture of the old tree with its affluent branches, making a "cavern of cool shade." Below the roots of the tree is a pretty little scene representing a very wooden-looking soldier about to charge into the mouth of an innocent-looking cannon which protects a camp of wigwam-like tents. This book has a feature...
...inaugural ball, March 5, 1865. There is also a finely written letter, dated London, April 28, 1758, in which Franklin begs the college (Harvard) to do him the favor "to accept a Virgil I send in the case, thought to be the most curiously printed of any book hitherto done in the world." Some letters from Emmanuel Kant to the grandfather of Prof. H. A. Hagen of Harvard are here preserved. Here, too, is Longfellow's first draft of "Excelsior." dated "Sept. 28, 1841. Half-past three in morning." It is written on the back of a letter addressed...
...Princeton, making it impossible to arrange games at Hanover, Princeton, Harvard, Brown and Amherst tendered their resignation, but Dartmouth, in order to prevent complications tendered its resignation, which was accepted and the former resignations were tabled. The Spalding league ball was again adopted and the Spalding League Base-Ball Book is again to print the college records, constitution, record of meetings...