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...obscure member of the senior class has received the following despatch from his father in California: "Heard of the small-pox to-day. Come home at once...
...enter the den of thieves. But is it true? Can any one justly say that student feeling at Harvard is distinctly irreligious? Are we, simply because we are Harvard students, and that is for the most part the argument advanced, hardened followers of Mammon? The writer has frequently heard that glorious gray-haired fable of the Harvard infidel, but he never met the unbeliever but once. The young atheist in question laughed at Christianity and boasted that Buddhism even was a more perfect faith. An older companion proved by three questions that the would-be Buddhist knew nothing of either...
...seek in any words distinctively more elegant. The use of these cant terms clings to us more or less through life and marks us as men of Harvard. The man of '79 is as easily recognized at times as the grave and potent senior who has but just heard the gates of his alma mater close behind...
...certain member of the '89 chess club was heard to exclaim the other day when he had lost his queen in play: "I've got my king yet, anyway...
...recent issue of one of the daily papers of Boston, a prominent professor in the classical department of the university, published an appeal for money to support the American School at Athens. For years we have heard from all sides in answer to our re-current plea for various improvements in the college buildings, the cry of "no money." And "no money" it will doubtless be, until Gore Hall falls a mass of ruins upon the spot which it has failed to enlighten. We feel some-what like the friends of our religious home missions when told of the success...