Word: advent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...With the advent of a new term and the new year, it is in order to frame new resolutions. Of course we have gone with the rest and have led our friends to expect marked changes in our conduct. As it is not modest, however, to talk of ourselves, we would turn our attention to others, and would speak of a few new year's resolutions, which would, we think, benefit our friends. First, are the overseers capable of turning over a new leaf? Appearances say, no; but, as appearances are often deceitful, we would hope...
...this exponent of knowledge; while last year's list of forensic topics shows how well adapted theses are to deal with other subjects, as Natural History. Now, theses writing tends to become necessary in just the degree in which written examinations tend to become useless, - in proportion to the advent of a more general character in our studies. Wherever, then, theses became useful, they would form a proper test; and I believe that they will become the chief means of examination for this very reason. But here, again, a coarse scale of marking is absolutely necessary; only an approximately definite...
...average college journalist is seldom possessed of sufficient nerve to attack abuses which through long standing have become recognized as unassailable and beyond the student's reach. With the advent of warm weather we may expect to hear a few smothered imprecations over matters which, though to the freshman eye enormous evils, have become perfectly adapted to the Harvard condition of calm, admiring and independent indifference. It is needless to say that we refer, not to the pump, it is true, nor to that summer boarder, the mucker, who like the poor, is always with us, but to the "state...
...most trying experiences of Harvard student life is the sensation of daily contact with a source of annoyance which time can never dull and which increases in its power of discomfort as time goes on. The troubles arising from the increasing advent of the "mucker" element have never assumed such proportions as at the present. Every form of this much agitated question has been discussed again and again. And as often the college authorities have refused to take any notice of the matter. But it is at last time that some action should be taken, if not by the faclty...
...rostrum. This stage arrangement will serve as the foundation for subsequent changes as the play proceeds. The garden scene will be presented with great care, although the chief changes in the stage arrangements will be property changes. Roman vexilla and standards will be used, and Caesar's advent will be heralded by the approach of the ancient singe bearing upon them the SPQR. Great care has been expended upon the costumes. Artemidorus, the sophist, and the soothsayer will be dressed in a different manner from that of the hackneyed public stage-costumes. The dress of the citizens will conform...