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...first fifteen minutes of the hour in writing a translation of some passage taken from the first 570 lines of the "Birds" of Aristophanes. If the student wishes, the marks received on these exercises will be counted in for a part of the year's work, in place of the translation on the final...
...seems to me that such doggerel has no place outside of a valentine, or, perhaps, a college paper," writes a correspondent of a Boston paper of the poem sent to the Harvard Club of New York by W. W. Story, the artist. The first verse of the song, with the refrain, by the way, is as follows...
...story, that we begin to pick out this or that insignificant trifle about which to grumble and make ourselves unhappy - letting ourselves lose sight entirely of the prominent and well known fact that we are enjoying educational advantages unsurpassed by any in the world, and that there is no place in the world where to enjoy these advantages the student has more pleasant and agreeable surroundings, customs and sports to brace and cheer him after becoming fatigued by hard mental labor. I say the above that all of your readers who chance to run through this article may, as they...
...whom dwell in that section of Paris called the "Quartier Latin." Here it is that one sees and is able to judge of student life in its highest perfection. The Quartier is full of third and fourth rate "cafes," "brasseries" and "bals masques," and it is at these places that the French student seeks his recreation. He knows no sports, nor does he feel the need of any, for he is totally indifferent to the laws of health. He is most happy when with his comrades at some cafe where he can smoke, drink and play cards. He remains...
From this brief sketch of the main features of Paris university life, so repugnant to our ideas and notions of such a life, I am sure all will agree with me when I affirm that for mental and physical comfort there is no place like Fair Harvard. Yours...