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...Corporation of Harvard, which position his father had held as well. Judge Hoar had also been a member of the Board of Overseers. His connection with Harvard as a graduate from both College and Law School, and his later connection through the governing boards, will be matter of great pride to the University...
...action which has been taken by the Administrative Board with regard to the punishment of men guilty of passing in written work which is not their own will be felt keenly by every student who has taken pride in the thought that there is an unusually high standard of manliness here at Harvard...
...Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen was then taken up by Mr. Copeland. Her books, he said, had been read with delight by the greatest men both of England and America. All through her works one feels that it is of real life he is reading. But "Pride and Prejudice," he thought, was not the best of her books, of which the most delightful perhaps were her latest works: "Mansfield Park," "Emma," "Persuasion." One goes to Jane Austen for humor, and not for pathos. Her novels are no more real than Miss Wilkens's "Pembroke," which is an extraordinary work...
After the talk Mr. Copeland read the first chapter of "Pride and Prejudice," and selections from Thomas Bailey Aldrich. He ended by reading Thackery's "Ballade of the Bouillabaisse," which, he said, might be called the key note of "Trilby...
...sure that every upper-class man shared the pride and joy which the freshmen felt in their victory over Yale. It was a grand game from start to finish, stubbornly contested by each side, yet with never a semblance of rough play. It was the kind of football any one must take pleasure in watching, - the kind that it is perfectly possible for any two elevens to play. Messrs. Forbes, Bancroft and Crane, who have directed the training of the eleven, have reason to feel well satisfied with their work. To them and to the team and its substitutes...