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AT the present time, when so much is being said about the department of Oratory and Rhetoric in our own College, and an effort is being made to improve the condition of our literary societies, it is neither uninteresting nor profitless to ascertain how much importance is attached to these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SUCCESSFUL DEBATING-CLUB. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

IT is rather surprising that from so large a number of students as one finds at Harvard there are so few who are at all familiar with the historic landmarks of Boston and vicinity. We are placed in that portion of the country which has been termed "the classic ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT HOME. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

It would be considered a ridiculous proposition if any one should urge upon the students here to try to take possession of the caucuses in Cambridge, and swamp the regular politicians of the First Ward, and yet it is not merely possible, but quite likely, that such an attempt would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS AND POLITICS. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

That those who manage our State and national affairs are not altogether perfect, and that something is lacking in our political life, is evident, and so many a one, desiring to help in amending it, calls upon the class he considers the best, be it scholars, gentlemen, or women, to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS AND POLITICS. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

Bidding a truce to dates, Christ Hospital was founded three hundred years ago by the boy-king Edward VI., in a large monastery whose inmates had been driven out in the hostile reign of bluff King Hal. Starting with 350 scholars, it has now 1200; but it is not a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO OLD SCHOOLS. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »