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...General Court adjourned to the College, the Council to the Library, and the House, to the Hall where they have met for the despatch of Public Business till last Wednesday; for on Tuesday night about 12 o'clock, in the severest snow storm I ever remember I heard the cry of Fire, one moment brought me to the window where I saw the old Harvard College on fire, and it was with the utmost difficulty they savd the other Buildings. Stoughton was on fire an Hour, Massachusetts catched in three places, and Hollis Hall is burnt much at the Southwest...
...last Saturday's gymnasium meeting a lady was heard to remark that "the tug-of-war must tire the men dreadfully." As a general rule it makes a great many men very tired...
...undergraduates. It seems to me he does not go deep enough. If public opinion were not torpid on the subject, most of the cheating would stop at once; - few men would be willing to face the sure contempt of their friends even for forty per cent. A remark I heard lately, made by an upperclassman, is rather a striking illustration of how a good part of the college world looks at these things. He was speaking of the proctors; and he said if they were done away with he thought "a good many nice fellows who cheat now would stop...
This evening Col. Douglas will deliver the third lecture of the course, given under the auspices of the Historical Society, in Sanders. His subject, "The Southern Volunteer," gives promise of an interesting discourse, and those who heard the lecture, two years ago, on "The Northern Volunteer." by Col. Livermore, will be able to make valuable comparisons. A portrayal of the soldier of the South in the recent war is sure to be instructive to an assemblage of Northern people. New impressions will doubtless be received, and false impressions are likely to be corrected...
Massachusetts was then in part a dormitory and the basement of Harvard was used for recitation rooms. Here James Russell Lowell heard classes and lectured on his favorite topics. In Holden, on warm days, the adhesive black-painted benches used to hold the students in fixed attention during lectures and render rapid departure impossible...