Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...world, where, indeed, we really are; and, when we push on again into the desert, we first think and then write of our past pleasures. Wellesley, Lasell, and Boston University, nay, even the Annex, have given refreshment to many a Harvard traveller, and doubtless will refresh many more to come; but not of them but of still another oasis would I write, of one that is just as refreshing, just as hospitable, just as shady, with its sparkling springs of gentleness and beauty just as cool and recuperating,- the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston...
...concert, which by the way was held in the dino-concert, or concertodining, hall, having come to an end, the next thing to attract my attention was the Art School and Loan Exhibition of paintings. It was hard to study very carefully any of the pictures on account of the constant crowding of the guests. One of the paintings, however, took my attention for some time. It was entitled, "Waiting for Breakfast." A little girl stood before a stove watching a woman, presumably her mother, fry buckwheat cakes. The title and the plate of cakes (resting on the front edge...
...only a training school for the mental qualities of its students, but also for their religious morals? "Any college that gives a preference for any one belief in religion and enforces such a belief on its members, must be narrow and must exert a bad influence over all who come under its sway." This has been said more than once by people who pride themselves on being well read and posted on educational subjects. It is extremely difficult to trace to its source any such report, and yet there must be some foundation for such positive statements. Undoubtedly the tendency...
...Procrustes upon which every student shall be equally stretched." And yet he does not see any very desolate outlook for the future of the classics. The classics will still be studied as long as there are students who have a fondness for such studies in languages "as come through a large familiarity with the ancient classics...
...WINTHROP WHITE, President.HARVARD ART CLUB.- There will be a meeting this evening at half past seven, in the Club room. Prof. Palmer, who was expected to speak to the club, will be unable to be present, owing to another important engagement. There will be important business to come before the meeting however, and the designs for the shingle are also to be submitted, so that a full meeting is requested...