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Here is the way the appearance of things at Harvard strikes a preparatory student. A writer on the Exonian has been peering around and thus records his impressions: "Between the hours of four and five P. M., Hemenway presents an animated appearance. In the main hall every pully, every rope...
At the dinner of the Alpha Delta Phi, Rev. E. E. Hale, to illustrate his point that men of wide reputation in letters may be of really better material than men who may be more proficient in studies, told of a letter which was written by a friend of James...
A curious paralellism to this expression occurs in the last Yale Courant, which cries out: "The day seems rapidly approaching when the HERALD and and the News shall lie down together, and the little Crimson shall lead them." ("Little" Crimson because of the recent article on "Yaleism.")
The state of mind of the writer when subscribing his name, I have fancied, may be often seen from his handwriting. Some there are who seem to be frightened, so as almost to be unable to leave a legible trace; others seem inspired by their surroundings and turn out specimens...
Men seem to be more modest, excepting, perhaps, college graduates. They invariably put down all their titles. One who seems proud to have returned to his Alma Mater has written, " '74 and wife." Some Yale man who came up in his freshman year has honored the entire head of one...