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...needy. If we cannot keep the field of sports against all comers or carry the pennant victoriously down the river, let us, by all that we esteem worthy, exhibit an interest in literary affairs, which cannot be deemed second to that of any other college which acknowledges our Alma Mater as the first university of the land...
...Tufts as excellent, and the teaching thorough. He did not say, however, that the students ate in the chapel or that some of the professors roomed in the gymnasium. He felt sorry for us that we were not in Tufts, and pointed out the excellencies of his Alma Mater, and we felt that if we were not sons of the Crimson we would be sons of Tufts. We had many pleasant experiences, by no means the least of which was the experience that everyone knew, not Smith of '86, but Ed. We asked after another Tufts friend. Our host stepped...
...days of good King Karlos and his Queen, Alma Mater, it came to pass that there journeyed to the realms of this much loved King a band of youths who, from their number, were called the nine. And from these, it is said, in after ages came the nine muses. Now the nine found great favor in the eyes of all the people and their concerts, which were often called balls, were widely attended. Rich and poor, high and low, gathered upon the fields on warm sunny afternoons after four o'clock, (for at this hour the shops were closed...
What strides the great Universi8ty has taken ! During all my early years our old Harvard Alma Mater sat still and lifeless as the colossi in the Egyptian desert. Then all at once, like the commander's statue in Don Giovanni, she moved from her pedestal. The fall of that "story foot" has effected a miracle like the harp that Orphens played, like the teeth which Cadmus sowed. The plain where the moose and the bear were wandering while Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, where a few plain dormitories and other needed buildings were scattered about in my school-boy days, groans...
...four years spent in Harvard College may be made, and often are made, at least as valuable as those of any four years spent in any institution, I do not hesitate to say, in the world" Mr. Thwing is a Harvard graduate, and has written much on his Alma Mater. He has never hesitated to condemn her where she needed condemning, or to praise her where she has deserved praise, and it is just this openness and freedom that gives weight to what he writes. In the few lines I have quoted at the beginning of this paragraph...