Word: appearance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brunonian editorially pokes fun at the commencement ceremonies in vogue at Brown, and gives utterance to the following irreverent criticism: "The President always appears in the cap and gown of the English universities, and the speakers, too, appear in gowns giving the impression to a stranger unacquainted with the origin of this peculiar dress, that he is attending some solemnity of the church of England or of Rome. When the speakers raise their arms in gesticulation, one unaccustomed to the dress thinks, "They all, flapping their wings, cried caw." During the delivery of the Latin Salutatory, all who know...
...have before us a list comprising books by Profs. Palmer, Childs, Lanman, Shaler, Trowbridge, Laughlin, Dr. Royce, and Messers Preble and Parker. Dr. Royce, Mr. Wendell and Dr. Taussig, each have, we understand, a book in preparation. Apart from the natural pride we feel in seeing these gentlemen appear in print, we are gratified over this literary activity because of the practical benefits we expect will accrue therefrom to Harvard. It is rightly the constant end and aim of this university to seek to increase the proportion of workers among its students. Some drones there must be here, of course...
...lanscape-gardening, building (but not architecture), navigation, and aeronautics. (5) Fine arts embraces music, the archaeology of art and numismatics. (6) Antiquities (including folk-lore) takes other departments of archaeology; popular ballads and tales, as well as mediaeval romances, find their places here, while ballads not of popular origin appear under the final head; here, too, are placed anthropology and ethnology. The scope of (7) History and geography (including politics and general biography) is sufficiently indicated by its title, but it should be explained that biographies of artists should be looked for under fine arts, of astronomers under science...
While reading an article on "Training at Harvard fifteen years ago," recently published in the CRIMSON, the question must have occured to many, whether the present method of training, undergone by our crews, will not appear as extravagant fifteen years hence, as the old system does...
Princeton College has withdrawn from the rowing association. It would appear that Princeton is going to waste valuable time in study...