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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...twenty years since I was in college and roomed in Stoughton, - the north entry, if I remember rightly. I have not seen Cambridge since that time, being something of a wanderer. I live at present in Buenos Ayres, where I am engaged in business - but these autobiographical particulars have little to do with my story...
...bitterly disappointed. Careful scholarship has been ridiculed as pedantry before this, but it has at last invariably won just recognition. We are sorry that the Advocate has been so grossly misinformed as to the purposes of the New Shakspere Society and the conditions of Shakspere criticism at the present day. We fear that "common sense and sound scholarship" did not dictate its own remarks upon the subject...
...rare not to be valued highly. Of course we have all read "Tom Brown;" but things must have altered considerably since that fascinating book was written, and we ought certainly to welcome eagerly a chance to exchange the impressions which it gave us for others more just to the present generation of Oxford men. Mr. Parker, himself a graduate of Oxford, is certainly in every way qualified to make the lecture entertaining; and we heartily urge every one who possibly can to be present...
These inconveniences and discomforts contributed in a great measure towards making most of the Crew haggard and worn by the time the day for the race came. The present captain of the Crew was unwilling to ask his men to undergo a year of hard and careful training, and then to go to New London in a physically fine condition, and impair their chances by quartering them in a house such as Harvard occupied in 1880. An earnest effort was made to get suitable quarters already built. This having failed, the matter was laid before the New London local committee...
...students. The College, by allowing attendance throughout the year at St. John's, has authorized such a practice; but it is more than doubtful whether the St. Paul's would be willing to support it, as the members seem to desire not to interfere in any way with present arrangements...