Word: comee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...expectations, there is little doubt that the meeting to be held on Saturday will be very successful. The Athletic Association has spared no pains to make the meeting a success by securing entries from outside athletes, including the best amateur gymnast on the flying rings, and the college should come up to the mark and provide a large number of competitors. The entries close this evening...
...character which prevents them from taking a firmer hold on the more liberal portion of the college. The aim of the proposers of the second plan is, then, to cherish the religious and the humane interests of the college side by side to the end that greater strength might come to each through contact with the other and that the work of the university might assume a broader character...
...college is fortunate in having an opportunity to hear Mr. Black deliver his lectures on literary topics. In giving his Mr. Black is filling a distinct need at the university. A large number of men who come to college have to devote so much of their time to whatever special courses they are pursuing that they find no time for that more delicate form of education which is found in a study of literature. They have not the leisure to take one of the English courses, and yet they feel the need of some general knowledge of English literature...
...consists of "The Mayor of Lyme Regis," by S. P. Duffield, and "Mile. Pourgeot's Cat," by H. P. Dodge. The former is a description of the struggle which the mayor of a sleepy, contented old English village goes through when he is besought by an American cousin to come to the land of "booms" and make his fortune. The peace of mind which comes to the old man when he finally comes to his senses and rids himself of the "latent germ of greediness and ambition," is delightfully portrayed...
...Child in Literature," by S. C. Hart, is an interesting essay on the place of children in literature. The author shows how, from the first appearance of the child in the poetry of Blake and Wordsworth, authors have more and more come to write of children out of interest and sympathy with the very child itself...