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Among all the journals now dead and gone, but once published by Harvard students, the Collegian retains to this day a certain posthumous fame because of the honor it had of first publishing some of Dr. Holmes' most celebrated verses. Dr. Holmes was not the editor of the Collegian as has been stated, however, for the graduated from college in 1829, and the Collegian was not started until 1830. But he was a frequent contributor to the paper, and the reader, in running over its table of contents, meets many familiar titles from his pen. "To My Companions," "The Dorchester...
...establish new and instructive courses, should not have already undertaken to supply the demand among her own pupils. Many think that short-hand is of value only to newspaper reporters; but the truth is, that there is no man engaged in literary work, whether he be lawyer, minister, editor or author, who will not find, and repeatedly prove, a practical knowledge of short-hand writing of great...
Hilliard & Metcalf, Cambridge, published the Lyceum, as they did later the Register and the Collegian. The paper appeared semi-monthly and had as chief editor Edward Everett. In their "Address," the editors proclaim it to be the object of their paper to present the "many valuable hints suggested in a course of general study, which can only be published with propriety in the miscellaneous collections of a periodical pamphlet. . . . It is to be the publick common-place of its contributors." And then in further detail they explain what subjects will especially be treated: American literature; discussions of the "various subjects...
...junior exhibition prize at Yale was very curiously divided this year on the section line between Mr. Johnson and Mr. Leonard. Mr. Johnson is a Kentuckian, a son of Col. Stoddard Johnson, a prominent Democratic editor and politician, and a nephew of Gen. Albert Sydney Johnson, the Confederate general who fell at Shiloh. His piece was entitled "The Lost Cause," and was an eloquent, highly rhetorical, and truly Southern defence of his people. Mr. Leonard is a New Yorker, and chose for his subject "William Lloyd Garrison," his oration being a review of the same question from a Northern stand...
Acta: Managing Editor, John K. Bangs, '83 ; Business Manager, H. L. Hall, '84, S. of M. ; E. J. Levy, '83 ; J. F. Jenkins, '84 ; H. V. A. Anderson, '84 ; G. J. Angell, '84, S. of M. ; W. O. Partridge...