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...article in the North American Review of this month entitled "The Fast Set at Harvard," is only the first of a number of articles intended to set before the faculty of the University a true statement of the inner life of Harvard's undergraduates. The author is working for the best interests of that institution...
...fifth hare and hounds run of the season was held yesterday afternoon. The hounds won for the first time this year. It was a fast hunt; that is, there was no break and the hounds were not required to keep together. The hares, Gorham, '90 and Downs, '90 started from Matthews at 3.21 and left a very good trail through Cambridge to Fresh Pond, thence through Watertown, the Newtons, Brighton and Barry's Corners, leaving the back at the last named place. They arrived at the gymnasium at 4.55, after a hard run of twelve miles. Twelve hounds started...
There will be a fast Hare and Hounds run this afternoon, starting from Matthews at 3.15. Davenport and Downs will be the hares...
...colleges. On the contrary any unbiased observer will admit without hesitation that in no college in America are the students more gentlemanly than here. Nowhere do they preserve better order among themselves than here; nowhere are hazing and rowdy-like amusements frowned on as here, and nowhere is the "fast set" smaller in proportion. People who have lived in other college towns will admit that no where are the students on better terms with the inhabitants than here...
...writer of the article in the North American, who has not the courage to sign his name says that the "fast set" is the most noticeable here. On the contrary this set is small in numbers and despised by the other sets. The proportion is not one in twenty-it is perhaps one in forty. The faculty are not too lenient, but are frequently unduly severe, and they do not hesitate to inflict suspension or expulsion as the occasion requires...