Word: attics
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brief but very interesting account of the position of clubs in college life half a century ago, and sketches of Edward Tyrrel Channing, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Jared Sparks; and it also points out the difference which the closer communication between Cambridge and Boston has effected. "From My Attic Window" is an ambitious attempt at description by "A Harvard Junior." The literary portion of the magazine is completed by an essay on "A Worker in Stone," two stories, "Seth Grinnell," and "'Mid Musty Manuscripts," and several bits of verse. There are letters from the captains of the Columbia, Dartmouth...
...framing is of oak and the heavy beams project into the rooms nearly three inches. The rooms are low studded and are surrounded by an oak wainscotting three feet high. The hallway is large and square and out of it leads an old fashioned winding stairway, extending to the attic...
...worded. Follows an essay on Clough by Miss C. N. Bynner, a new departure this, a most auspicious one on a most auspicious day. Some old Greek has asserted that it was from the perfect style the ladies of Athens commanded in their letters, that attic prose learnt its brilliancy. The ladies of to-day have not degenerated from that standard. The essay, besides being of easy diction, shows much sympathy with the subject of it and some critical acumen. Next comes a very happy account of "The Big Bharata" by Mr. Bruce. He has made the tedious agreeable...
Bowdoin prizes have been awarded as follows: to W. M. Fullerton, '86, $75 for an essay on "Alexander's Campaign in the Punjamb"; to H. T. Hildreth, $50 for a translation into Attic Prose...
...went through the physical laboratories, the natural history museum, and the trunk-rooms. Hundreds and hundreds of trunks, side beside, occupy two large attic rooms. Trunks of all sizes and all varieties were there; and here came the only sad thought of the day. We almost wept in pity when we thought of the sorrow in the college when the day for final packing up came. Our sadness soon passed away, however, for at the next moment we were again in the corridor, and for the next two hours were talking Wellesley, Harvard, Athletics, Prayers and Greek. How much...