Word: column
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...announced in another column, a service will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, in Appleton Chapel, in memory of Mr. Newell. The service will be simple as is most fitting for the purpose. All members of the University are invited to attend...
...another column is announced the establishment of a fund to provide the University with an annual series of lectures by a French man-of-letters. This extremely generous action on the part of the Senior who has established the fund is sure to be appreciated at Harvard and by the graduates. Nothing is more in keeping with the broadening purposes of a university than a project which will bring to the instructors and students the influences of foreign culture. A yearly visit from an illustrious French scholar, who is to speak to us in good French and from a fresh...
...plans proposed in another column this morning in regard to some general system of prescribed physical culture here at Harvard, will arouse considerable interest. The feeling has become general of late among many of our graduates, that not only are many men losing as much in bodily health as they gain in mental development during their stay in college, but that our athletes often do not make the most of themselves. In the one case it is simply because regular exercise is not thought of; in the other because it is merely seasonal...
...column presents a decided novelty in the form of a parody of some well known lines on Christmas. The burden of the song is a promise to refrain from punning and to cultivate a higher form of wit. Unfortunately the "swear off" seems to apply only to that particular department. One is tempted to wish that such a healthy reform might be instituted throughout the Lampoon, in all issues to come...
...smooth running lines we find an amusing statement of the fact that an author is not his own best judge. On the same page is found the new headpiece for the "By the Way" column, in which "Ibis" is decoratively pictured in the act of getting to the bottom of things...