Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attended Professor Dyer's reading of his translation of the Iphigenia of Euripides yesterday evening were treated to an exceptionally fine bit of literature. The publishing of these relations which we may expect at no very distant day will give all lovers of Greek a chance to place a valuable volume on their shelves...
...Bourget, is well rendered, and gains in effectiveness by being put into blank verse. In ' O Tempora," a pretty idea, well expressed, is hurt by faulty metre. A second strong poem, of deeper thought, is burdened with the pedantic and heavy title "Address." The fourth poem is a clever bit, announced as coming all the way from Laselle...
...poetry, on the whole, is good. "Sunrise" is a charming bit of verse containing a very pretty, though by no means new idea. "An Answer," is a fairly good piece, the second stanza being by far the better of the two. Altogether, this number of the Advocate is more than unusually good...
...good time she had during the 250th Anniversary. During that brief period of sweetness and light, enough good things were said about her and enough flattery was bestowed upon her to have turned the head of any less sensible old lady. But she only smoothed her dress a bit, put a new crimson ribbon on her cap, and blushed with modest pride...
...first group of college songs well deserved the warm welcome they received. The accompanying of the "Triton" also was extremely well done. The playing of the Banjo Club, made a pleasing intermezzo, although they were not always in the best time. Mr. Thayer's bit of part-writing was delicately rendered. The purity of the voices in the German song was very pleasing...