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...realize what a careful supervision was exercised over the students of Harvard when the college was in its infancy. In those days of strict Puritanic customs, a student, and especially a freshman, could not do anything except in accordance with certain rules laid down by the watchful faculty. Each morning and evening they had to read the scriptures according to the provisions of this article...
...scholars shall never use their mother tongue, except that in public exercise of oratory, or such like, they be called to make them in English...
...freshwoman who wore the back hair for which the battle was to be fought, was placed in the centre of a compact mass of her classmates, who were resolved to defend her at all hazards. The sophomores, confident of an easy victory, had made few preparations for the contest, except that of putting on their oldest clothes, and they were guilty of the extreme folly of wearing their own back hair, a mistake which, as the event proved, was destined to make the struggle a fruitless...
...quarter past two all the seats except those reserved for graduates were filled, and at the hour for commencing many were compelled to stand, the number being fully 1300. The officers had the arrangements well in hand, and at 2.30 the meeting was opened Several additions had been made to the list of entries which reduced the number of expected walkovers. The officers of the day were: Referee, Dr. Dudley A. Sargent; judges, Prof. Wm. E. Byerly '71, and Mr. E. W. Atkinson, '81; referee of sparring, Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly; judges of sparring, Mr. Clifford Brigham...
...letter from a member of the Historical Society goes to prove nothing except that there is confusion in the councils of that society. The real grievance remains the same and the letter merely transfers the responsibility of that grievance from the shoulders of the authorities of the college to those of the authorities of the Historical Society. The college is greatly indebted to Mr. Ropes, who proposed the series of lectures on the Civil War, and to the Historical Society who took the matter in hand. That complaints are made about the management of the lectures does...