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...race was exciting, - all Harvard was present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVICE FROM A CONTENTED MAN. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

...Baccalaureate sermon was preached by Dr. Peabody in the Chapel last Sunday afternoon. About two thirds of the class were present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Farewell of an A. B. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

MEMBERS of the Senior Class who desire to have the Crimson sent them next year are requested to give their names to one of the present editors or leave them at Sever's before Commencement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Farewell of an A. B. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

...There's something else in what it intimates. I confess I am not yet able to be reconciled to the separation of great wisdom from great character. The former, if present without the latter, can lay no claim to merit. If men forget that we have had four centuries of printing, and so seek to make encyclopaedias of themselves, they must pay the penalty of their forgetfulness, for the days of the admiration of walking dictionaries are past. It is this absence of character which these verses intimate, and an absence of the respect which character would have inspired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD COLLEGE. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

Again, many students regard the use of illegal help in examination as free from deception or disrepute, on the ground that the Faculty show that they expect them to use illegal help by the supervision of proctors; and many who use such aid at present would not think of doing so if proctors were dispensed with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRUTH IN ART. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »