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 BirdInHand (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