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...genuine Thanksgiving recess? A day and a half at Thanksgiving time is worth, to the students more than two, three, or four days in September. Still, as matters go now, the students, or a large part of them, get both. The same reasoning that has been given concerning Washington's Birthday does not apply Thanksgiving. It has been argued that, because Harvard was born before ever Washington was, there is no occasion for Harvard's recognizing the great general's birthday. It is certainly a fact that Harvard doesn't recognize it in any outward way, Harvard students pass...
...incomplete list of autographs; here are a few: John Locke, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, William Wordsworth, Robt. Burns, Emanuel Kant, John Dryden, Walter Scott, Edmund Burke. The manuscripts are of still greater interest. A Latin poem by John Milton; a musical composition of Haydn's; a letter from George Washington to Gen. Schuyler; an official document of the Confederate States signed by Jeff. Davis and Alex. H. Stevens; an invitation to Charles Sumner from President Lincoln to attend the inaugural ball. But that which will probably interest you most of all is Longfellow's first draft of Excelsior, dated September...
...good time, and no grumbling was heard. As houses were passed where young ladies tenanted the windows, the classes invariably sent up loud and appreciative cheers. From the South End the procession took up the line of march for the business districts, passing through Tremont, Eliot and Washington sts. Along this portion of the route the crowd of spectators was tremendous, it being thought that the parade was witnessed by at least 200,000 people. From Washington st. the column marched up Cornhill, Tremont, Park, Beacon, Howard, and Bulfinch sts. to Bowdoin square, where the Harvard delegation was disbanded...
When the column was passing over the lower part of Washington st. desertions began to become frequent...
...discontinued and gave away to its occupation by votaries of the larger college sports. In 1864, October 12, the "University Base Ball Club" was formed. We are informed that "in the spring of 1863 the Cambridge City Government granted the use of part of the common near the Washington Elm for practice ground" and that "this was used until the spring of 1864". The old ground on the common was then given up and the Delta now partially occupied by Memorial Hall was taken possession of by the permission of the college faculty. In the spring of "65 the 'Varsity...