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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...says the English college student is the "university gentleman." "No student smokes in the streets; no gentleman student drinks at a bar; drunkenness is rare and disgraceful; the wine parties that Tom Brown used to attend are going out of fashion; college rows and scrapes are things of the past; the ancient brawls between town and gown are no more known; hazing is unheard of." The sentiment is that it is worse to be vulgar than to be wicked...
...sophomore class supper at the Revere House last Saturday night was attended by a large and enthusiastic body of '84 men. At about half past-seven the doors were thrown open and about one hundred and twenty-five men took their seats at the table. A quartette, consisting of Messrs. Eliot, Howe, McCagg and Woodward, gave some selections, after which Mr. Minturn, the orator of the occasion, responded to the toast of the class of '84. His speech was well received. After another selection by the quartette Mr. Chapman read the poem. He made many amusing hits at various members...
...glide slowly past the shore...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : The readiness with which suggestions are adopted by the management of Memorial Hall encourages me to call the attention of the steward to one thing which occurs quite frequently. If a man comes from twenty minutes to a half-hour past the time of opening the hall he is told that this or that thing has given out. One day it is the fish, another day the turkey, and so on. Almost every day something gives out. As the student is given an hour's range he ought to have some assurance that, if he comes...
...past nine days the severest blizzard of the season has been raging in the Black Hills. Two feet of snow on a level has fallen and the storm extended one hundred miles in every direction from Deadwood...