University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-04-03

In 1886 the General Court of Mass
achusetts set about establishing a
proper school for the education of the
sons of the gentry and clergy in their
own colony. The school was estab-
lished at Newton, which was after
wards called Cambridge. In 1888 John
Harvard, a young clergyman, died,
leaving his library of 26O books to the
school and a few hundred pounds, the
half of his little estate. Since that
time. the school has been known as
Harvard.
Harvard College started with a lit
tie quadrangle of dOrmitories and
library Offices. Now it has grown into
a university with buildings scattered
every place in Cambridge that it can
buy land and even with quadrangle
of marble buildings for the medical
school in Boston, three miles away
from the old quad.
Prof. c. p Huse, of the economic de-
partment, spent his undergraduate
days at Harvard. Bloody Monday" is
the day that stands out distinctive as
the first event in his freshman ca
reer. BLOODY Monday, which has since
been abolished by the class that Pro-
fessor Huse was a member of, fell on
the first Monday night of the college
year. 1t was the night that the sophs
met the freshmen in the Harvard Yard
no Harvard man ever thinks of call
ing it the campus-a free-fOr-all fight.
Lack of clothes on the participants
usually put an end to the scrap.
The COld.ShOwer Treatment.
THE conflict was scarcely over"
says Professor Huse, until the sophs
came rushing up the stairways to the
hunting freshmen. Notice
had previously been given for the
freshmen to provide spreads for their
callers. If they did not, they were
subjected to a mild form of hazing. |
Hazing was continued after Bloody
Monday only on the case of men who |
really needed it. l remember one man
who never lost his freshness who was |
put under the cold shower every night |
or the first half year. Bloody Mon
lay is still the night for hazing.
Another Harvard custom is 'Repub-
ican Day. This has about as much
o do with the fortunes of the G. o. P.
IS our hobo convention with the tramp.
Every four years the Harvard men
march to Boston with torches and fall
n line behind the Boston Tech STU
ents. After the procession breaks up,
he real purpose of the parade is re-
ealed when Harvard torches fall on
Tech heads.
''One day i'm Sanders Theater a lee
ure was being given on the con-
uests of Charlemagne. Suddenly the
ecturer was interrupted by someone
hrowing in sputtering bomb. Stu
ents near the bomb rushed over the
enches to safer places. After the ex-
losion only hole in the floor was
cen.
'The man who did this was seeking
omission into the Med Fac Accord
ng to the rules of this ancient and
ishonorable society no one could be
Omitted who had not committed a
rime. The Car of Russia was elect
d an honorary member and sent over
set of surgical instruments in recog-
ition, but it was never claimed. The
ollege authorities finally secured a
dissolution of this century,
Id scientific society.
The Scholastic System.
Until a few years ago a student
ad almost absolute freedom in the
election of his courses. Instruction
as given principally by lectures.
"" thC Ssol ID HUI very ulucTtHt
'om ours. Weekly quizes modify the
,cture course. The only studies /
as obliged to take were English and
rench. Every day l wrote compost
ons for my English instructors, just
; the freshmen do in this University.
here is more thesis writing in the
award courses, however, and better
brary facilities to make it possible.
awards size prevents the close at
ntion to the individual student We
ave here, but as fast as finances per-
it they are working in this direc-
on.
THE college is the principal school
the Harvard University. Besides
lis there is the college of applied
.ience for engineers, the medical
;hool in Boston, the law school, the
.ntal school, an agricultural school
I'd a theological school which are
9TH unimportant, and the graduate
hool. An A. B. degree is required
r entrance into most of the profess
onal schools, so nearly all Harvard
H. L., \