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Prof. Eustis was the son of an army officer, Gen. Eustis, who had graduated from Harvard in 1804. He was born at Fort Independence, Boston Harbor on Feb. 1, 1819, and was consequently not quite 66 years old at the time of his death. At the early age of 15 he entered Harvard and graduated with the class 1838. He at once entered the Military Academy at West Point from which he graduated four years later, the head scholar of his class. This rank entitled him to a position in the Engineer Corps of the army with which he served...
...England who placed the memorial of Longfellow in Westminster Abbey, remembering the friends of the poet in this country, have generously sent two copies of the bust of the poet, one to Harvard College and the other to the Maine Historical Society of Portland, the city where he was born. These replicas left Liverpool about the middle of December on the Canard line, which will forward them free of expense, and ought soon to be here. Meanwhile a letter from the Prince of Wales has been received by the president, announcing the gift. It is as follows...
Many years ago, before many of the college professors who decry foot ball were born, I was taught by an episode in ancient history a lesson I have never forgotten. As it is probably now omitted from the prescribed instruction, I will recall it briefly: A certain nation was waging war, and their opponents learned that fear of disfigurement took the place of courage, so, aiming at the face they carried off the victory...
...students more than two, three, or four days in September. Still, as matters go now, the students, or a large part of them, get both. The same reasoning that has been given concerning Washington's Birthday does not apply Thanksgiving. It has been argued that, because Harvard was born before ever Washington was, there is no occasion for Harvard's recognizing the great general's birthday. It is certainly a fact that Harvard doesn't recognize it in any outward way, Harvard students pass the day with their usual "Harvard Indifference" from all outside appearances. The flag on the Cambridge...
...Harvard torchlight parade, like Minerva, appears not to have been a thing of slow development and growth. It was born in full panoply of plug hat, black bottle, and a uniform that was unique in political demonstrations...