Word: chief
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best feature of the Christmas Lampoon lies in its illustrations, which are exceptionally good. A picture of the Boston coach arriving in Cambridge on Christmas Day fifty years ago, and the centre page drawing by C. M. Bill '00 are the best of these. The chief fault with the short stories and jokes is that they are based upon affairs which have no direct connection with the College. The Death of Sir Cuttenthrust, A Legend of the Third Crusade, starts ambitiously, but is not sustained and falls flat at the end. It is well set off, however, by marginal drawings...
...false idea that the whole play centers around Granger. The chief character is Corbineli, who runs the plot, upon whom the whole effect depends, and who is the life and soul of the comedy. Next in importance is Chateaufort, the boaster, who is always trying to ruin some one. Pierre Paquier is the stupid servant who acts as messenger between Granger and Genevote. These three characters are the chief comedians, who turn the play from a tragedy to a comedy...
...chief additions which will be made to the magazine will consist in a summary of information regarding the authorship and nature of new books and of articles in periodicals; the general department will be enlarged, and an effort will be made to print contributions of enduring value to economic science...
...offer abundant room for the great collections of Babylonian and Egyptian antiquities which it has hitherto bee impossible even to unpack. The biological department has completed its "Vivarium," and has filled it with all manner of beasts and creeping things, so that it has become one of the chief attractions to visitors. The law school and the new dormitories are now in course of erection. And now, within a week, the Provost has announced an anonymous gift of $200,000, which is to be expended in building a physical laboratory...
...guards then will be the difficult places to fill. Burnett will return to College. His playing at centre this year has proved his worth to the eleven, in that position, aside from his skill as a kicker. Chief among the other candidates this year was C. Sargent, who has two years more in College. Donald's place at left tackle can be filled by Eaton, who will be a Junior in the Scientific School next year. If Lawrence continues to improve as he has done this season, no one can replace him at the other tackle. Next year, however...