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...undergraduate life which cannot fail to be of interest to all students in Cambridge. The writer of the article, Mr. Sloane Kennedy, the compiler of the lives of Longfellow and Whittier, takes a very friendly view of Harvard students. He objects to the popular idea that Harvard students are either boating men, base-ball players or "howling swells," and characterizes the representative Harvard man as "simply a quiet, studious young man, only to be distinguished from other well dressed young men by a certain air of intellectualism and that appearance of lofty disdain which characterizes students everywhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGRADUATE LIFE AT HARVARD. | 1/5/1883 | See Source »

...general negligee of his tout ensemble would seem to indicate that he was either a maniac or a college professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/22/1882 | See Source »

...candidate for final honors in these courses must have completed, with an honorable average, the special studies of his course, present a thesis and pass an examination on either Von Holst's United States or the history of Germany leading to the formation of the New Empire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HONOR SYSTEM AT HARVARD AND AT CORNELL. | 12/22/1882 | See Source »

SOPHOMORE THEMES.Theme III. will be due January 9. Subjects: 1. A Description of either a Gothic Cathedral or a Greek Temple. 2. "Patience" or "Pinafore" turned into a Narrative. 3. On the meaning of the word "Swell." 4. The Present Situation of the Republican Party. 5. The Comparative Merits of Base-ball and Foot-ball. 6. "Why I came to Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BULLETIN. | 12/18/1882 | See Source »

...prejudiced judge, umpire or referee, or unfair play of opponents. Her shabby treatment of Columbia last summer is in full keeping with the principle which she follows; if defeat seems a foregone conclusion it is better to skulk away. Dartmouth has had as good a nine as either Harvard or Princeton since the league was formed, but has been unlucky. When she has added three or four more departments; when she establishes a nursery for cultivating base-ball talent; when she makes use of players until they have justly earned the sobriquet of "veterans;" when her players stoop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/16/1882 | See Source »