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...John T. Sargent, Edwin P. Seaver, Moorefield Storey, Morrill Wyman-11. The final decision of the question rests with the corporation. "Of the seven persons who form the corporation," says the Advertiser, "only two are thought to favor the medical education of women at Harvard." Co-education of any sort with us must now undoubtedly be but a dream for the dim future...
...least which is not a mere racing committee. But how much real vitality has the bicycle club at present? I know it is useless for me to harp upon this universal tendency at all our colleges to turn all possible sports to the interests of contests of some sort or other; and to speak of the impossibility of sustaining any interest among college men in any sport that is not perpetually bolstered up and galvanized into activity by this stimulus. The life of a college man as a college man, seems to be altogether made up of "contests" of some...
...York made a demagogical speech whose chief tenor was the condition of the American eagle, "with its beak filled with Lowell garbage." "But the American eagle had been aroused from her ignoble slumber, and the British lion must quail before her" - and further edifying eloquence of a like sort...
...then, as now, in such cases, precautionary signals had to be hung out for the ignorant and slanderous, of this sort: "Let not the friends of college be alarmed, nor those who still have faith in the good order of our institution, withdraw their confidence. This and all following allusions to disorderly practises, have reference to a state of things which does not now exist, and which, it is hoped, never did exist to the extent in which it is here represented. It is the privilege of all poetry to exaggerate." Harvard then, as now, also was the victim...
...promising student, just back from Brown University, was met at the Union depot by an elderly man, who made a grasp at the young man's hand and even essayed to clasp him in his arms. The young man shook hands with the enthusiastic native in a non-committal sort of way, and said, in not unfriendly tones, "Well, indeed, my dear fellah-I really-your face is rather familiar; it seems to me I have met you somewhere, and yet I can't exactly place you." The father gazed at his distinguished son, and went back to his office...