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John Lovett, the only fruit vender allowed in the college buildings, came to this country twenty-nine years ago. He spent his first night in America in Cambridge and since that time has never passed one away from...
...four years of residence at college were spent in the acquisition of Latin and Greek, a smattering of mathematics, enough of logic to distinguish barbara from celarent, enough of rhetoric to know climax from metonomy, and as much of metaphysics as would enable one to talk learnedly about a subject he did not understand. The students lodged in the dormitories and ate at the commons. The food then partaken of with thankfulness would now create a riot in a poor-house. At breakfast, which was served at sunrise in summer, and at day-break in winter, there was doled...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : The ins and outs of college life, portrayed so minutely in the HERALD, recall to my mind so vividly the year I spent at Harvard that I cannot forbear contrasting it with university life at Paris. It is but human nature that every mortal should complain of his lot - be it what it may. Thus it is, after the novelty of Harvard life has worn off and we become so accustomed to it that it seems an old story, that we begin to pick out this or that insignificant trifle about which to grumble and make ourselves...
Prof. Child has spent twenty-five years on his collection of Scotch and English ballads which is now being published. Queen Victoria is the first English subscriber to the work...
Professor Torrey, after graduating, spent four months in teaching. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840, but at once returned to teaching. He was tutor at Harvard during the years 1844-1848, and was made McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History in 1856. Professor Torrey has rendered valuable service to the historical department, and will be remembered by graduates as being the first instructor in History to renounce the old-fashioned system of recitations in favor of lectures. He also had much to do with originating the system of reserved books at the library...