Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...these first days of the college year I want to say to the students a few words which may not come amiss from one who filled here for many years the place of a teacher in morals and religion. Many of you are in the common phrase professors of religion. While I rejoice in the fact I do not like the term. It sometimes cherishes a quasi-godly sort of self-conceit. and it keeps many out of the church who ought to be in it. I go to the table in my own house not because I profess...
...entrance to the Gymnasium will be at the main entrance, the exit at the side facing the Common. The yard entrances will be between Holworthy and Thayer, Weld and Grays, and between Stoughton and Holden. The exits will be between Matthews and Grays, University and Thayer, Thayer and Holworthy, and between Holworthy and Stoughton. There will be a special entrance and exit for those coming in carriages between Harvard and Massachusetts. There will also be a special entrance for graduates in front of Harvard...
...another word to the freshman class. Ten men have signed the book to go to New Haven for the game tomorrow. It would be charitable to suppose that every freshman has an examination on Monday and therefore stays in Cambridge to study hard all Saturday. But the more common-sense view to which we are forced is that Ninety-four does not care whether her nine wins or not. It is easier to believe that such is the case when we recollect the support which the class has hither to given its own athletic teams. It is disheartening to urge...
...Advisory Committees on baseball and football, among them Mr. Thayer, Mr. Smith, Professor Ames and Mr. Stewart, met Walter Camp and George Adee, representing Yale, at the Massassoit House, Springfield, yesterday, and talked over informally the baseball situation. The representatives of the two colleges were unable to find any common standing ground, and the meeting adjourned without any definite result...
...McCulloch's two-part story; "A Common Marriage," is brought to a conclusion in the present issue of the Monthly. The second part of the story is not so well told as in the first part and as a consequence is a trifle disappointing. The story, as a whole, is deficient in interest and while there are many creditable bits of character delineation and description throughout the tale, it lacks the force which usually characterizes Mr. McCulloch's poetical work...