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...looking over some old family papers that might throw some light on my ancestry, for my class life, I came across a journal written by my great-grandfather, while he was at College about a hundred years ago. I give some extracts from his account of his Freshman year, hoping that they may be of interest when contrasted with the present condition of members of that class...
...proof - if proof were necessary - of the hold which the Class Races have taken on the College. Contrast this state of affairs with that which many of us, now undergraduates, can recall, and the marked advance in our general rowing will be easily appreciable. Four years ago, before the old club system had reached its end, the crews of the club-houses rowed at spasmodic intervals, bound together by no ties of class or association, but merely by the tie of locality. The oarsmanship displayed in the races was of the crudest form; and the contests failed to call...
...most heartily support the Advocate in its editoral article on retiring allowances for professors. It has long been a reproach to Harvard that her professors, when exhausted by a long life of mental labor and research, must expect no calm old age, but must continue on in the dull routine of lecture and recitation, until, like faithful and worn-out horses, they die still in the harness. The recognition by the College that it is a duty to provide for the declining years of those who have spent their youth in her service, not only ought to attract earnest scholars...
This view of the question seems a very just one, and must commend itself to all well-wishers of the College. In individual cases, it is not impossible that an offender may suffer more than under the old system; but on the other hand, he is given full opportunity to justify himself, and, in the majority of cases, much more latitude is given than ever before...
This was the life women passed at old Athens...