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...Zola's "Contes a Nanon," Guyde Maupassant's somewhat vile anecdotes, and Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" being its progenitors. And as of the short stories, so of the novels. Balzac seems to me the first novelist who could dissect a woman. Defoe tried to analyze a woman of the lower grade in Roxana, and Peregrine Pickle is such another monument of failure. But it was Balzac who first traversed this dark - or should I say fair - continent...
Another strange custom was a rule compelling a lower classman to keep his hat removed from his head while a member of one of the upper classes was in the yard. This custom was finally broken up by a young freshman named Hedge, who, when ordered to uncover by an imperious upper classman, responded to the command by a heavy blow of his fist on the nose of his superior and was supported by the President for his independence...
...smothered in a mass of frills and ruffles. The cap itself adds no little warmth to the body. For this reason alone this departure from long usage would be inadvisable. All the distinction which is necessary between members of the graduation class and those of the lower classes, is made by the dress suit. Any further distinction is superfluous. We cannot yet see why Harvard should ape the manners and customs of Cambridge or Oxford, especially as we consider our American ways fully equal to any which may be imported...
...scholars; and ultimately resulting in "turning over to the colleges a large part of the teaching now done in our undergraduate department, and thus generally enabling us to give the greater part of our resources to students who in their training were above the level of the two lower classes in that department." In conclusion, Mr. Shaler refers to the English system, by which "many of the secondary schools of that country have in their possession presentations and scholarships which enable youths who win them to defray in part, or wholly, their education at either Oxford or Cambridge. ... The effect...
...wholly by the work done at the regular recitations of his class. Any student who fails to attain a rank of 50 per cent. by reason of absence from recitations, except in cases of prolonged absence as above mentioned, can make up such deficiency only by reciting with a lower class...