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...authority. It is needless to dive into antiquity to secure proofs in support of this proposition. Society declares it a fact of common experience and observation. The ferment into which this country was thrown by the recent advent of a disciple of the heresy of long hair from a certain effete despotism across the water, alone stands as a sufficient warning against the dangerous doctrine. Harvard's continued success (certainly in a social way) is to be traced to this small but important beginning of hers, and the supremacy that the college now holds in the matter of fashions...
...student in such cases is as a matter of course very marked. It must be admitted, we think, that here the power of perseverance comes most into play in insuring continued success. The old story of undue precocity partly explains the phenomenon. The gradual oncoming of a certain blase spirit, resulting from the weariness of overforced mental activity, is remarkable in many cases. With some, college is the limit of mental growth; with many, but the beginning. There are many consolations for the ambitious but temporarily unsuccessful in all these facts of our daily observation, as well...
...will be a long time ere this or any similar work can take the place of the old 'Carmina Collegensia," so familiar to students and alumni of all our leading colleges. A representative college song book cannot be made, as this one seems to have been, by getting certain ambitious tyros to write words and music, which are then put under the caption of their respective colleges. The real college song book is something of long growth, and is not written to order. In the course of years the students of any college will have hundreds of songs...
Harvard College is too business-like. It may not be advisable to stop recitations for any and every little holiday peculiar to this section of the country, but when a day of national observance, like Washington's Birthday or Memorial Day, comes around, it certainly looks as if we too might take part in the observances which are the privilege of the humblest in the land. The example of a certain professor in the Law School, who notified his sections that he would not lecture Tuesday, as it was a legal holiday, is commendable...
...very great disappointment that the first game of the Yale series should have to be played at New Haven. Every team or nine plays better at home, from a certain feeling of familiarity with its surroundings, as well as the support given it by its own college. It is highly probable that if the first game had been played, as was intended, the day of the class races, we should have been victorious; whereas under the present circumstances it will have to be a hard-won fight. The only way to remedy this trouble is to send down...