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...Telegraph Company, which has since been metamorphosed into the College Telephone Company, does not date from an earlier epoch. Several of these organizations have ceased to have any real existence as societies, or even any nominal existence in the Index; but if the energetic men of '74 were to take a look at the inside of Harvard College life to-day, they would not be disappointed in finding energetic and progressive successors. Das Verein, Le Cercle Francais, and the ??? are no more, it is true; but look at the societies that have replaced them...
HOWEVER high a stand Harvard may take in other matters, her position as regards music is not one that does her any credit. True, from the Catalogue we learn that she has a musical professorship and some five courses in music that are pretty well attended. Placards posted from time to time in the Yard, and brief accounts in the Advocate, inform us that a series of concerts is being given at the Sanders Theatre. The College herself has done her share; it is we who are to blame, and justly so, for Harvard's reputation as a college that...
...little more than nominal. During the middle of last term it gave some signs of vitality, but the exertion of its one concert seemed too much for it. We learn that it was often difficult to get even a quartette together, and that second tenors often had to take the place of first. If we are not misinformed, the club is in no better condition at present...
...some young men do remain and take postgraduate courses, do they not? There is young X., who did not graduate till he was twenty-three, and then spent a year or so in travel and study previous to entering the Law School. He can't be admitted to the bar till he is twenty-seven at least; and yet he don't seem to think he has been wasting his time. The young man whose room in Stoughton my nephew borrowed for his Class Day told me that he had got ninety-five per cent in his college course...
...much higher purpose in view than he confessed to, and if not, whether I should ever become so blase in regard to college life. It puzzled me most, however, to find out whether "quite a respectable portion" of the class would really be rather glad than otherwise to take their sheep-skins and walk away. I am not sure of the answer yet, but am still wondering...