STEAY GLIMPSES AT OLD HARVARD. 



Cambridge is a model university town ; in a spot 

 peculiarly favored by nature, art has left little to 

 be desired, and the broad, quiet, elm-arched streets 



the tasteful pleasant homes, the very people you 

 meet, bear that air of culture and refinement which 

 is found only near long-established seats of learning. 

 Here, we need hardly say, is Harvard College. 

 Founded in the early days of our colonial history, 

 it copied the main features of the great English 

 universities, and although the old laws and customs 

 are mostly gone, sufficient traces remain to give to 

 " Old Harvard" and to its student life a peculiar 

 stamp of their own. 



A stranger is impressed by the quiet and order 

 which prevail in the class-room, on the campus and 

 in the street. As in the European universities, 

 this results from the large uumber of students. At 

 an institution so undemocratic as Harvard, in a 

 class numbering two hundred or more, where the 

 student has hardly a speaking acquaintance with 

 half his classmates, " class spirit " and class combi- 

 nations are things unknown. Individuals, not 

 classes, are held responsible for disorderly acts ; 

 indeed, public sentiment in college, is strongly 

 against the rowdyism common in some of the 

 neighboring institutions. To this, and to the strict 

 government of President Elliot, may be ascribed 

 the suppression of hazing. The most virulent form 

 of this is now seen in the annual " card-war." It 

 is a common custom of students to post their cards 

 on their study doors ; Freshmen, however, are not 

 expected to enjoy the advantages of door-plates, 

 and their attempts in this direction are ruthlessly 

 thwarted by the Sophomores. Last year, much to 



