Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last night the series of symphony concerts in Sanders Theatre was brought to a successful close. These concerts have come to be a regular institution of Cambridge society, and have been a source of great pleasure to the students and the citizens of Cambridge alike. The programmes have been in the main well selected to please the audiences which assemble in Sanders Theatre, and in this respect the courses have probably been an improvement on those in Music Hall. Those who are to be in Cambridge next year will look forward to a course of symphonies in the same place...
...come now to the system which depends upon, yet rules, all others. Affections of the nervous system are now and have been for some time on the increase. If I were asked to name that part of the human organism upon which the health and strength of an individual most depends, I should unhesitatingly say the nervous system. The reflex actions are those produced by some cause exciting a nerve which has its termination in the spinal cord and which does not extend into the brain. Walking, called automatic, is one of the reflex actions. Did all nerves terminate...
...exchange which has just come to our office contains the following paragraph: - "The Harvard student has a passion for attending fires, as is pretty plainly shown by the fact that over 200 undergraduates turned out at mid-night, and ran a distance of more than two miles across country to witness the burning of the great ice houses at Fresh Pond." This statement is, in a measure, a true one. The Harvard student, as a rule, does display a great fondness for conflagrations, and his encouraging presence does much to promote the efficiency of the work done by the Cambridge...
There's the pestilential nuisance who didn't come for work...
...negatively critical, as Harvard men are, perhaps, too prone to be. It comes at first perhaps, from self consciousness and from a fear of ridicule. Be positive in your attitude, but not dogmatic. Plunge into the stream and learn to do things yourself. Intelligence and sympathy come with experience. Learn the lesson of doing the right that lies close at hand, from the brave action of Mr. Cable in publishing his two books "The Freedman's Case in Equity," and "The Silent South." His action in defying social ostracism for the sake of what he felt was the right should...