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...FAST DAY is to be the 12th of April, so that the spring vacation will be from the 11th to the 17th, both days inclusive...
YESTERDAY being Washington's Birthday, the event was celebrated by examinations in the morning and afternoon. We have always objected to this day being passed over in silence by Harvard College, and it is probably owing to our former remonstrances that the Faculty have chosen this neat and inexpensive manner of celebrating an event to which we all look back with pleasure. We have always been taught to emulate the Father of his Country, and an especially good opportunity to do so was given yesterday. As he was in the habit of cutting apple-trees, we might have cut examinations...
...religion" of the Divinity School or to the Nation. The lectures are not attended by students, because they come at an hour when few can leave Cambridge without neglecting their studies. The writer seems himself to have recognized this reason, as he saw his "genius" on New Year's Day, - a college, though not a public, holiday. The presence of our professors at these lectures has several times been noticed by the public prints: does this look like snubbing Mr. Cook...
...university is, and I find his idea of it to be pretty much as follows: Strictly voluntary attendance at all college exercises is the most prominent feature. The morning is spent in sleep and in breakfasting luxuriously in one's room, after which the real business of the day begins. This is either rowing on the river, or a long excursion into the country with a tandem, returning in time for dinner, which, dressed by a French chef, and washed down with the choicest wines, is eaten at the rooms of some hospitable friend. After an evening spent in playing...
...requires no very great labor. Vacations, which are supposed to last the greater part of the year, are spent in improving the mind by foreign travel. Dignity is given to the place by a set of men called Fellows, who, living at the expense of the College, spend the day in walking about arm in arm, looking immensely important, and occupy the evening in telling stories and drinking immense quantities of Port wine. To gain a fellowship is the aim of every undergraduate...