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...following article, which appeared in the March number of Our Day, in reply to Aleck Quest's "Fast Set at Harvard," was written by a recent graduate of Harvard, who, as he himself says, had every opportunity to know the facts...
...kindly, i.e., a 'good fellow.' Yet it is undeniable that the feeling of contempt, for vice and extravagance, gathers strength among all as the four years pass. The influence of the sporting men, of men of fashion, and of the heavy subscribers to athletic games (i. e., of the fast set), which is overwhelming in the freshman year, is almost entirely supersided by the influence of the Monthly editors, of the members of historical, philosophical and finance clubs of the senior year; and as the upperclassmen give the tone to the college, you see how misleading Mr. Quest's article...
Thursday, April 4th, has been applet Fast...
...Marquand, Harvard '89, and Mr. Johnson, B. Y. M. C. A., contested the feather-weight sparring. Through all three rounds the fighting was very fast, and punishment was given and received. Mr. Appleton decided it a draw...
...Williams was the preacher of the afternoon. He read a part of the seventeenth chapter of John, and selected the verse, "Howbeit this kind goeth not out except by prayer and fasting," as the text of his remarks. He said that God demands the spirit of prayer and fasting in every man who desires true success in any work. There are some men of brilliant genius to whom the favors of life come unsought who appear to be independent of this law; but the spontaneous success of their undisciplined genius are never permanent or satisfying. To possess the spirit...