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Harvard Stories: Sketches of the Undergraduate

Chapter 27: DR. IZARD.
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A series of affectionate, often comic sketches portrays undergraduate life through short anecdotes about pranks, club-room talk, social dinners, class rituals, and clashes with local authority. Framed as recollections by an alumnus, the pieces present a parade of memorable personalities and episodic incidents—ragging, plotted embarrassments, athletic and academic rivalries, and quiet moments in student rooms—mixing satire with nostalgia. Varied in length and tone, the vignettes aim to capture the customs, hierarchies, and camaraderie of college days, showing how mischief, friendship, and tradition shape the daily experience of students.

[1] This farce is printed by the kind permission of the Hasty Pudding Club for which it was originally written.

[2] There is no fiction about this. It was done by a Harvard oarsman.


THE NEWEST FICTION.

DR. IZARD.

By Anna Katharine Green, author of "The Leavenworth Case," "The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock," etc., etc. With frontispiece.

MASTER WILBERFORCE.

The Study of a boy. By "Rita," author of "A Gender in Satin," etc.

SENTIMENTAL STUDIES and a Set of Village Tales.

By Hubert Crackanthorpe, author of "Wreckage."

CAUSE AND EFFECT.

By Ellinor Meirion. Uniform with "A Literary Courtship."

GOD FORSAKEN.

A novel by Frederic Breton, author of "A Heroine in Homespun," etc.

CHERRYFIELD HALL.

An episode in the career of an adventuress. By Frederic Henry Balfour (Ross George Dering), author of "Dr. Mirabel's Theory," "Giraldi," etc., etc.

THE HONOUR OF THE FLAG.

By W. Clark Russell, author of "The Wreck of the Grosvenor," etc. No. 4 in the Autonym Library.

THE HEART OF LIFE.

By W. H. Mallock, author of "A Romance of the Nineteenth Century," etc., etc.

ELIZABETH'S PRETENDERS.

By Hamilton Aïdé, author of "Poet and Peer," etc.

WATER TRAMPS or the Cruise of "The Sea Bird."

By George Herbert Bartlett. Uniform with "A Literary Courtship." Frontispiece.

YALE YARNS.

By John Seymour Wood. Uniform with "Harvard Stories." Illustrated.

AN ISLAND PRINCESS.

A Story of Six Weeks and Afterwards. By Theodore Gift, author of "Pretty Miss Bellew Dishonored," etc.


BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

THE LEAVENWORTH CASE. A Lawyer's Story.
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES. A Story of New York Life.
CYNTHIA WAKEHAM'S MONEY. With Frontispiece.
X. Y. Z.; A Detective Story.
HAND AND RING.
A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE.
THE MILL MYSTERY.
THE OLD STONE HOUSE, AND OTHER STORIES.
7 to 12. A Detective Story.
MARKED "PERSONAL."
MISS HURD; An Enigma.
THE DOCTOR, HIS WIFE, AND THE CLOCK.
DR. IZARD. With Frontispiece.
THE DEFENCE OF THE BRIDE, AND OTHER POEMS.
RISIFI'S DAUGHTER. A DRAMA.