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PREFACE. 


We present to our readers the last volume, as it appears, of 
Harvardiana. A college periodical has survived its fourth year, 
and wondering at itself goes tumbling to its grave. It was but 
yesterday when it was announced as a ‘ bantling,”’ but already 
the hand of prerogative is upon it, and when next the under- 
graduate children of Harvard shall be stricken with a literary 
mania, they may collect their efforts under some other form, and 
give them a more euphonious name. 

it was, perhaps, never a new observation, that it 1s impossible 
to please all, and from the nature of the case we immediately 
experience its truth. Our readers, though mostly collected 
around us in one narrow circle, did not make an undivided 
society, and in some respects stood towards each other in awk- 
ward relations ; so that when we were inclined to speak of the 
rights, the feelings, or even the pleasures of one party, another 
may have felt its dominions invaded and its dignity hurt. Men, 
it seems, are more “ thin-skinned ” than they allow, especially 
upon those sore points which every class and every individual 
affords ; and those, who claim authority in some departments 
where it is willingly allowed them, are apt to think themselves 
on this account exempt from all rebuke or ridicule. Knowing 
the unpleasantness with which the laughter of one circle often 
affects the ears of a neighboring one, we have treated as tenderly 
as possible most points between the two estates who have com- 
posed our readers ; but we are not disappointed, although we 
deeply regret our inability to satisfy both. 

It was of course neither with pride nor wonder that we dis- 
covered that we had awakened critics. [From this neither in- 
significance nor excellence could have protected us, had we 


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desired protection But this bas been our only reward im ou 

otherwise thankless oflice fee be allowed Lo CnyOy the sneers ol 

some as highly as we might the praises of others. We have 
"| rarely been distracted by the opposite feelings of finding united 
. in the same person a valuable assistant and a harsh eritic, and 
’ have regretted that in cases where there has been the greatest 
MI outcry against us, our own most reluctant acts of rejection may 
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be supposed to have commenced the warfare. 
y Our thanks have already been given to those who have assist- 
e ed us in our duties. We regret that we have not been able, by 
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interesting more in its preparation, to make the periodic il more 


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useful, at once, and more agreeable. ‘The extent of the influ- 


ence of which such a work is capable is by no means apprecii- 


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ted, nor is it, notwithstanding what has been said, at all opposed 


to or inconsistent with the other objects for which we are here 


, assembled. It were strange indeed if the amount and variety of 
talent, which such an institution as eurs collects, could produce 
no greater result than this attempt and other similar ones have 
exhibited. 

We regret that we cannot close the volume with our good 

) wishes to our successors. It would be a pleasure to anticipate 
along life for the work we have for a time been connected with. 
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ts pages will always bring up agreeable reminiscences, since 
their unpleasant associations are already passing into oblivion. 
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Phey will always recall to our memories the friends we had about 

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us, the kind hands that wrote for us, the kind eyes that read and , 

Y rewarded our labors. If they are the monuments of our youth- 
ful want of wisdom, we can never forget that they were the 

: production of days when our hearts were light and our hopes 
high; and though time may elevate our powers and our ambi- 

J tion, we shall still remember the feelings and friends that anima- 
ted our exertions for the pages of Harvardiana. 

Naruan Hare, Jr., 

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Georce W. Lippirt, 
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CHARLES W. SCATES 


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INDEX TO VOLUME 


PROSE. 


\ Chapter on Noses 
A Lone Story 
American Multiloquence 
Ancient Systems of Government 
\ Runaway Match 

\ Sunday in Vacation 
A Voice from the Toinbs 
“Bridgewater Treatises 
Cecinna Petus 


Camera Obscura 


Chapters from the Life of Philomelus Prig¢ 


Character of the Devil 
Civilization : . ‘ : ; 
Commencement Week 
Copy! Copy! Ho! 
Debating Societies 
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, Eloquence 
“Extract from Class Book of 1838 
Exhibition Day 
Hints to Reviewers 
Hints to Theme Writers 
Influence of Philosophy upon Civilization 
Influences upon Mythology 
“Innovation 


Journalizing : 


“Kit Marlowe and the English Drama before Shakspeare 


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Vi INDEX. 


Memoir of Chatterton 
‘Mr Kspy’s Theory of Rain 
Musings 
My Last Cent 
Nothing to say 
Novels 
Obituary 
“One Day in Boston 
‘Our Karly Tears 
Origin of Supernatural Agents 
“Peep about Church 
Politics of the Ancients 
Political Parties 
Reoular Visits 
Semiramis ° 
Skillygoliana — No. 1. 
rT) No. 4. 

Summum Bonum 
The Bedlam 
The Disposition of Genius to Industry 
The Idler — No. Bs 

” No. 2. 

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The Lantern in the Castle Yard 
The Old Bell 
The State of the Times 
Thoughts on the Present State of the American Periodical Press 
*Venatica 
Wall Flowers 


VERSE, 


A Dead Letter ; ; ; 
*An Epistle to Mademoiselle Spinster C. 
“An Ode. ; 

*A Scene — To my Cousin 

“A Song ‘ ’ 

*A Twilight Meditation 


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INDEX 


‘Departure of the Tribe 
Dramatic Sketch 
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Editor’s Soliloquy 
Kxtracts from a “ Hasty Pudding Poem ” 
‘Genius 
{mitation of Burns 
*Lines 
Lines to an Unknown Beauty at the Cambridge Lyceum 
*Maniac’s Song 
Midnight Dactylics 
New Poem of Homer 
*O would I were not Fair 
‘Progress of Boots 
Resolutions — Rainbows 
*Return of Spring 
Saratoga Lake 


Scenes from an Unpublished Drama 


Serenade 
Skillygoliana — No. 2. 

= No. 3. 
‘Song 


“Stanzas 
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The Burial of the Unloved One 
“The Erl King 
“The Love Smitten 
“The Memory of the Dead 
“The Old Peasant 
“The Poetry of Nasality 
The Serenade 
“The Spirit of Romance 
“Thoughts on the Ocean 
‘T'o a rebellious Tooth at last extracted 
“To a Caged Bird 
*To a Flower given by 
‘To C. M. 
“Lo Memory 
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To Mount Washington 


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