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"JUST here we would like to moralize a little. An 'eleven' or a 'nine,' in visiting different colleges to engage in friendly contests, cannot be too careful of its conduct. They represent their college, and the impression they leave will without fail be attached to the whole college. Often in...
IT seems to be the popular impression that there is something in any college education, and particularly in a Harvard education, which prevents a graduate from becoming a successful editor. He may become a brilliant lawyer, a skilful physician, or a successful business man; but he can never become a...
TO the novel-reader who has not confined the gratification of his taste to more recent productions, but has dipped into the pastoral and the chivalric romances of the seventeenth century, one of the few interesting features of that dreary region lies in the opportunities for contrasting the behavior of...
It is not so many years since the class of "long-speech" novels died out, for its most prominent representatives in this century are the works of G. P. R. James. His minute descriptions of his heroines, beginning with the "finely pencilled eyebrows" and "shell-like ear," and extending to...
THERE is no law, the general impression to the contrary notwithstanding, which forbids candidates for the 'Varsity to appear in the Yard wearing overcoats.