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...least want to know what happened in the past, except as it enables me to see my way more clearly through what is happening to-day." - Spectator, October 7, 1876, page...
...that it speaks well for the choir, which stands to-day the only exponent of refined musical taste in the College. The writer in the Advocate advises Professor Paine to petition the Faculty for a few hundred dollars to hire a decent quartette. Perhaps it would be well for the writer to get some of Professor Paine's ideas on the subject...
...would think, from a priori reasons, that the representatives of a college would be its leading scholars. From experience, however, we know that such is not the case. And the consequence is, that instead of being a leader in discovery, invention, and opinion, the representative Harvard graduate of to-day is, as a general thing, a representative merely of a slight amount of culture and the most well-bred traits. He is able to pass a fair opinion in literature, art, and occasionally in science, but is far from being a forerunner in progressive work. He is amply satisfied...
...find. His clothes were always of the newest cut; his cravats a week or two ahead of anybody else; his cigar-boxes and wine-bottles had the most recherche labels in the world; and his mantel-piece was covered with autograph portraits of the leading theatrical celebrities of the day. But with all this magnificence, Smith knew absolutely nothing. His tailor sent him his clothes, and he hardly knew how they were cut. He could n't tell the difference between cider and champagne, - much less between a real Havana and a domestic descendant of old sogers. He positively...
...SHOULD like to point out to the Seniors a singular insatiability of former classes in the matter of Class-Day orations. Not content with sitting in the Chapel for two hours, on what is well known to be the hottest day of the year, and listening to an orator who seldom has much to say that is worth hearing, they have been in the habit of adjourning to the open air to solace themselves with another oration...