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...reception given by Mrs. De Sorosis. Although the variety of costume worn on that occasion made his double-breasted jacket less conspicuous than it would have been at most evening entertainments of a like character, still he began to feel that Boston was different from Saug Centre. His boots seemed larger than they had ever been before, his Sunday purple and fine linen seemed less purple and less fine than usual - in other words, he became aware for the first time that Saug Centre was not the "Hub" but that Boston was the "Hub," and he had only been living...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUSETTE DE LUNDI. | 5/8/1882 | See Source »

...utterly unnatural; necessarily so, perhaps, but that it is so - that four or five hundred youth, collected from their homes, far and near, and housed together for four years, to read books and forget the world, are in a forced and unnatural state, is obvious." A thought that might seem startling, if one did not reflect that the same objection has stood for two centuries, and Harvard has not yet seen fit to abandon her theory of college organization. The writer characterizes the "dig" or "hard student, with absorbed look and unelastic step, the probable consequence of his labors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLIER HARVARD JOURNALISM. | 5/6/1882 | See Source »

...fear, to a considerable extent well-founded. But then, Yale universally keeps so close a watch on her various athletic interests, and is so mindful of every move taken, that the varying recurrences of exultation and fear, that one continually observes in her college papers, seem very natural and proper. Self-confidence, when well based, is a very excellent thing. One thing is certain, that Yale can never be accused of false humility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/5/1882 | See Source »

...rather reckless of her to place her 'fondest hopes' in the base-ball arena," comments the Princetonian. "Both Harvard and Princeton have shown themselves strong at the bat. The Dartmouth nine, we learn, is batting poorly, and Amherst has done nothing at all as yet, and does not seem over-confident. Brown boasts of having discovered another 'phenomena,' and quite raves over her 'left-handed battery.' Her nine plays in the first three of the championship games, meeting Harvard, Dartmouth and Yale, between the sixth and tenth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 5/5/1882 | See Source »

...number of safety touch-downs will probably be much increased this year; for it does not seem likely that the ball will remain in the middle of the field for any considerable length of time after the kick-off, now that the block-game is done away with, and manoeuvering near the goal lines of course gives one side a decided advantage. On the whole, the association is to be congratulated for their success in removing the most objectionable features in last year's games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/4/1882 | See Source »