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If Harvard can be said to have a literature all its own, then few universities can equal it in scope. Here lies the reason for this anthologya collection of what Harvard men (teachers, students, graduates) have written about Harvard in the more than three centuries of its history.

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PART 1: WHAT IS THIS PLACE? 1. Anonymous: In Respect of the College (1643) 2. Samuel Eliot Morison: John Havard and the Note of Freedom (1636-1936) 3. William James: The True Harvard (1908) 4. Walter Prichard Eaton: Here's to the Harvard Accent! (1936) 5. David McCord: The Lights Come On (1941) 6. Donald Moffat: One View of Harvard (1948) 7. Three Presidents: Toward a Definition of Harvard (1869-1950) PART 2: PEDAGOGUES AND PUPILS 8. Henry Dunster: Considerations (1654) 9. Cotton Mather: Havard from Roar to Mather (1702) 10. Clifford K. Shipton: The Nephew of Uncle Experience (c.1780) 11.David Sewall: Father Flynt's Journey to Portmouth (1754) 10. Andrew Preston Peabody: Old Pop (c. 1830) 11. Presidential Tact: Four Letters from Four Letters from Four Presidents (1829-1862) 12. Thomas Hill: A Collecting Trip With Louis Agassiz (1848) 13. John T. Wheelwright and Frederic J. Stimson: How Rollo Came to be Examined(1880) 14.George Santayana: The Harvard Yard (1882-1912) 15. Richard C. Evarts: Eamination for Alice (1913) 16.Charles Loring Jackson: The Sophocles Myth (1923) 17. Theodore Pearson: President Lowell Builds His Harvard(1925) 18. Rollo Walter Brown: The Old Dean (1932) 19. Arthur Calvert Smith: To Copeland at Eighty, by a Life Long Pupil (1940) 20.Jacob Loewenberg : Emerson Hall Revisted (1948) PART 3: TROUBLE UNDER THE ELMS 21. Mistress Eaton:I Own the Shame and Confess My Sin (1639) 22. Edward Holyoke: The Burning of Harvard Hall (1764) 23. Samuel Chandler: A College Tragedy (1773) 24. Eliphalet Pearson: Journal of Disorders (1778) 25. Augustus Peirce: Overture to the Riot (1818) 26. Cleveland Amory: Dr. Parkman Takes a Walk (1849) 27. Ellery Sedgwick: Jane Toppan's Case (1892) PART 4: "YOU CAN TELL HAVARD MAN..." 28. Keep Thou the College Laws: A Series of Excerpts (1655-1790) 29. Thomas Shepard, Jr.: "That Precious Time You Now Misspend" (1672) 30. Richard Waldron: A Freshman Guide (1735) 31. Frederic West Holland: A Freshman Hazing (1827) 32. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Of Cambridge and Female Society (1828-1830 33. James Woodbury Boyden: Examined for Entrance (1838) 34. Thomas Hill: There is Nothing but Mischief in their Heads (1839) 35. William Tucker Washburn: A Meeting of the Med. Fac. (c.1858) 36. Robert Nathan: Peter Kindred's First Days (1919) PART 5: SPORTS AND SPORTING MEN 37. Jacob Rhett Motto: A Southern Sport At Harvard (1831) 38. Charles W. Eliot: What a Day for Our Race! (1858) 39. Mark Sibley Severance: The Contest on the Delta (c.1855) 40.Owen Wister: The Search for the Bird--In--Hand (1903) 41. John Dos Passos: Adventure at Norumbega (1923) 42. Lucius Beebe: Notes on a Dry Generation (1927 43. George Weller: Eleven O'Clock in November (1933) 44. Alistair Cooke: A Lesson For Yale (1951) PART 6: HER SOLITARY SONS 45. Henry Adams: The Education of a Harvard Man (1856 and 1918) 46. W. E. Burghardt Du Bois: That Outer Whiter World of Harvard (c.1890) 47. Edwin Arlington Robinson: Beginning to Feel at Home (1891) 48. Charles Macomb Flandrau: A Dead Issue (1897) 49. Lee Sirnonson : My College Life was an Inner One (c.1908) 50. John Reed:"College is Like the World" (c 1910) 51. Thomas Wolfe: Eugene Gant's Harvard (c.1923) PART 7: THESE FESTIVAL RITES

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 21/05/1982
      ISBN13: 9780674373013, 978-0674373013
      ISBN10: 0674373014

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      Book Synopsis
      If Harvard can be said to have a literature all its own, then few universities can equal it in scope. Here lies the reason for this anthologya collection of what Harvard men (teachers, students, graduates) have written about Harvard in the more than three centuries of its history.

      Table of Contents
      PART 1: WHAT IS THIS PLACE? 1. Anonymous: In Respect of the College (1643) 2. Samuel Eliot Morison: John Havard and the Note of Freedom (1636-1936) 3. William James: The True Harvard (1908) 4. Walter Prichard Eaton: Here's to the Harvard Accent! (1936) 5. David McCord: The Lights Come On (1941) 6. Donald Moffat: One View of Harvard (1948) 7. Three Presidents: Toward a Definition of Harvard (1869-1950) PART 2: PEDAGOGUES AND PUPILS 8. Henry Dunster: Considerations (1654) 9. Cotton Mather: Havard from Roar to Mather (1702) 10. Clifford K. Shipton: The Nephew of Uncle Experience (c.1780) 11.David Sewall: Father Flynt's Journey to Portmouth (1754) 10. Andrew Preston Peabody: Old Pop (c. 1830) 11. Presidential Tact: Four Letters from Four Letters from Four Presidents (1829-1862) 12. Thomas Hill: A Collecting Trip With Louis Agassiz (1848) 13. John T. Wheelwright and Frederic J. Stimson: How Rollo Came to be Examined(1880) 14.George Santayana: The Harvard Yard (1882-1912) 15. Richard C. Evarts: Eamination for Alice (1913) 16.Charles Loring Jackson: The Sophocles Myth (1923) 17. Theodore Pearson: President Lowell Builds His Harvard(1925) 18. Rollo Walter Brown: The Old Dean (1932) 19. Arthur Calvert Smith: To Copeland at Eighty, by a Life Long Pupil (1940) 20.Jacob Loewenberg : Emerson Hall Revisted (1948) PART 3: TROUBLE UNDER THE ELMS 21. Mistress Eaton:I Own the Shame and Confess My Sin (1639) 22. Edward Holyoke: The Burning of Harvard Hall (1764) 23. Samuel Chandler: A College Tragedy (1773) 24. Eliphalet Pearson: Journal of Disorders (1778) 25. Augustus Peirce: Overture to the Riot (1818) 26. Cleveland Amory: Dr. Parkman Takes a Walk (1849) 27. Ellery Sedgwick: Jane Toppan's Case (1892) PART 4: "YOU CAN TELL HAVARD MAN..." 28. Keep Thou the College Laws: A Series of Excerpts (1655-1790) 29. Thomas Shepard, Jr.: "That Precious Time You Now Misspend" (1672) 30. Richard Waldron: A Freshman Guide (1735) 31. Frederic West Holland: A Freshman Hazing (1827) 32. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Of Cambridge and Female Society (1828-1830 33. James Woodbury Boyden: Examined for Entrance (1838) 34. Thomas Hill: There is Nothing but Mischief in their Heads (1839) 35. William Tucker Washburn: A Meeting of the Med. Fac. (c.1858) 36. Robert Nathan: Peter Kindred's First Days (1919) PART 5: SPORTS AND SPORTING MEN 37. Jacob Rhett Motto: A Southern Sport At Harvard (1831) 38. Charles W. Eliot: What a Day for Our Race! (1858) 39. Mark Sibley Severance: The Contest on the Delta (c.1855) 40.Owen Wister: The Search for the Bird--In--Hand (1903) 41. John Dos Passos: Adventure at Norumbega (1923) 42. Lucius Beebe: Notes on a Dry Generation (1927 43. George Weller: Eleven O'Clock in November (1933) 44. Alistair Cooke: A Lesson For Yale (1951) PART 6: HER SOLITARY SONS 45. Henry Adams: The Education of a Harvard Man (1856 and 1918) 46. W. E. Burghardt Du Bois: That Outer Whiter World of Harvard (c.1890) 47. Edwin Arlington Robinson: Beginning to Feel at Home (1891) 48. Charles Macomb Flandrau: A Dead Issue (1897) 49. Lee Sirnonson : My College Life was an Inner One (c.1908) 50. John Reed:"College is Like the World" (c 1910) 51. Thomas Wolfe: Eugene Gant's Harvard (c.1923) PART 7: THESE FESTIVAL RITES

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