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Butterfield knew nothing of these things. What did he know again of a "petit souper de garcon," the poetry of such an occasion had never touched him.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUSETTE DE LUNDI. | 5/8/1882 | See Source »

"May the season continue as gloriously as it has begun, excelling our fondest hopes," says the News in relation to Yale's recent successes in base-ball. "We don't want Yale to be disapointed, but we think it rather reckless of her to place her 'fondest hopes' in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 5/5/1882 | See Source »

Thus far the preliminary games with professional teams show the Harvards to be the best prepared college team. But playing professional teams, in which the collegians have nothing to lose and everything to win, is a very different thing from playing for the championship, when both sides become unnerved by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 5/3/1882 | See Source »

The undeniable tendency of our day is towards the gradual loosening of all the time-honored and traditional ties of college and class custom, and, using the word in the etymological sense, the gradual vulgarizing of all the old and peculiar institutions of college life. This year, indeed, has seemed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE WORLD. | 5/2/1882 | See Source »

The editors conclude their paper with a bitter address containing an instructive homily on things in general and college journalism in particular. They say: "The deficiency of our subscription list has made it convenient to our publisher, that the present number be the last of the HARVARD LYCEUM . . .After the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLIER HARVARD JOURNALISM. | 4/25/1882 | See Source »