Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editors of the Lampoon, which should be heeded by all members of the college. The editors desire "a more generous support, both in a literary and in a financial way, from the college at large." That they deserve this support can be doubted by no one who has come to know the Lampoon in its successful career. The paper that is known in and out of Cambridge as the best college paper of its kind is certainly an honor to Harvard, and should have the support of all Harvard men who are able to contribute to it either from their...
...college curriculum is well known, and the courses fairly popular; so a course of lectures on modern thought would instruct a large number of appreciative and intelligent students. Let us hope that a representative of some school of philosophy, not favored by our professors may be induced to come to Cambridge...
...hundred, no one would stop to quote Homer and Horace while the lava was rising. But this is the hundredth case, the solitary exception to the general run. And herein lies the merit of the story. All the details are so worked out that when we come to the climax, all the actions seem perfectly natural. Under such circumstances, such a man could not help acting thus. All the circumstances are impossible. That is to be expected in a wierd fantastic tale; but if the critic objects to that, why does'nt he say so, instead of adopting his present...
...realized. Appeal after appeal has been made, with only partial success. We do not expect to arouse Harvard to its center on the question of a life university reading-room similar to the one at Yale, but we do desire to stir only a few so that they will come forward and help the present reading-room. Only twenty subscriptions are needed to make the society good for its present debts. Twenty-five men are wanted to join the association, contribute, each one his dollar, and thus maintain a useful institution in our midst. An admirable collection of papers...
...meeting this month. There is great activity in athletic matters at Cornell, nearly three hundred men being at work in the gymnasium. This year the winter meeting will bring out a number of good men, who will be selected to compete in the inter-collegiate field day sports, which come off at Utica next term...