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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard man is really not so very aristocratic after all. At heart he is pretty much of a democrat. It is a common remark in the college that there a man is estimated at his real worth. and all pretense and conceit is covered with ridicule. During the past fifteen years a wonderful change in the undergraduate life has taken place. The sleep of the Cambridge citizen was once broken by the uproarious singing of students in the streets. Now it is very rare to hear any boisterous midnight singing - such out-door singing as there is being confined...
...college he took a high stand in his class, and found much time beside to devote to athletics, having been proficient not only in several different sports, but also having filled in an admirable manner the position of coxswain in the famous '77-'79 'varsity crews. During the past year, while pursuing his law studies, young Allen has been secretary of legation at Washington. [Boston Herald...
...organizations will begin active work, preparatory to contests upon the water and, ball-field. Those who intend to compete in the winter meetings of the Athletic Association will or should begin training immediately, in order that these popular meetings may not be less successful this year than in the past. The standard of excellence has always been high, and it will require more than average exertion to prevent it from falling. With so many events in prospective, the number of men who will appear daily at the gymnasium will doubtless be larger than at any other time in the year...
...lectures in History 12 have been especially interesting during the past week...
...Columbia Spectator pays a dividend of 10 per cent. to all stockholders from the past year's profits...