Word: also
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Scribner's for March there appeared a severe criticism on Mr. Lowell's "Among My Books," in which the writer, referring to Professor Masson, says: "He has also done a noble work in his Professorship at Edinburgh, where he has accomplished what the united Faculty of Harvard College have thus far failed in doing, for he has created among his own students an ardent love for the study of Belles-Lettres." Has our Faculty failed in awakening an interest in literature in this College? Is it a fact that the cultivation of a good style and of taste in letters...
...Pierian Sodality kept up to their usual standard, and showed a good deal of practice and care in the execution of their pieces. Fesca's trio for piano, violin, and violoncello was well rendered by Messrs. Dean, Towne, and Finck, respectively. Rossini's Fantaisie pour Clarionet was also received with favor...
...family had been distinguished. But it may be doubted whether, even if he had not died so young, he would have had health vigorous enough to allow of his accomplishing this or any other wish that he might have had at heart. Those who knew him best also think that, under a reserve hard to penetrate, there was a sensibility that augured ill for happiness under any circumstances that could be predicted for him with probability. His unusual delicacy, his manliness, and uprightness have, it is believed, not been unappreciated...
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his family; that copies be inserted in the Advocate and the Crimson, and also sent to the Boston Daily Advertiser and the Berkshire Valley Gleaner...
...which he thinks necessary for the safety of a "turning race." This mode of racing is inconsistent with the rest of the idea. On the same ground that the race should not be a show, but an honorable struggle for victory, the interest, being undisturbed by "side-shows," should also be concentrated on the final result. And, too, the steady, straightaway pull of four miles is a race in which chance is far less likely to enter than in a race where a stake-boat must be turned. In such a race, although the separate stakes and the buoying remove...