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Tradition has it that once a man graduated from the University with a smirchless record,--in four years of college he had never had a class before ten o'clock or after one and none on Saturdays. Fact or fiction, this mythical hero has plenty of would-be followers. Harvard '79 may say to Harvard '23 or '25: "Young men, you fall to realize the responsibilities of your opportunities!" But the struggle to follow the line of least resistance continues, regardless. It is still possible to plunge into the fight, pledged to History, Government, and Economics, and emerge four years...
...color and life or the events will lose their relative importance or fail to stand out at all. This side the modern historians neglect or ignore. The successors to Parkman or Prescott are-turning their attention to other fields. What comes in to fill the gap is historical fiction. An inspired novelist like Scott, building a "casing of romance upon a core of realism", as Brander Mathews remarked, with a historian's mind for detail, and the creative imagination of an artist; should be prescribed for reading in history as much s in literature. The actual order of events...
...Then there is the fiction--nothing else--about the meeting between five Jewish students and the representatives of the undergraduate publications. And while there were unofficial meetings between five Christians and five Jews, the former men have emphatically denied the "admissions" and promises of "sweeping abolitions" attributed to them...
...want to take this occasion to thank one who is responsible more than anything else for the present status of the 5-cent fare, the ______"? Ah, if we might only fill the blank with the name of the Harvard CRIMSON! but unfortunately we are in the realms of fiction. We never exposed the Lampoon or the Advocate in half a dozen special editions and we must go without the public thanks of the Mayor...
...found in a remarkable state of preservation, had its walls ornamented with gorgeous decorative tropical birds; another had scenes from rural life as ornaments. These places had individual names, such as "Cabaloqui"--(little pony), "Tanjuga", (a kind of pottery); and "Piaquiquu", the name of an eccentric character in Inca fiction. These establishments seem to have been patronized by a mixed clientele. Their food was reputed to be the best, but to judge from the handful of coins found near them, the prices corresponded. The student societies, which I have discovered elsewhere, also had their living rooms, but most of these...