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...German Literature from the middle ages down to the present century, dwelling most emphatically on the most striking features of this development. By way of pointing out the relation of the literary life of the people to their society and politics it is intended that the lectures shall comprehend the development of the nation as a whole. The course although intended mainly for freshmen, is designed as a general introduction to the study of German Literature for any student who may be interested in the language. We therefore commend it to the attention of the students. The lectures will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/12/1889 | See Source »

...management has just received a most satisfactory letter from Manager Flint of the Harvard '91 base ball team, in regard to the misunderstandings that have so unfortunately occurred about the arrangement of a game. From this letter we are fully able to comprehend the reason for the inability of the team to appear, and we feel it a duty to apologize to the '91 management for the charges made against them in our last issue, and we hope that a game may be arranged with this team after all. However, we have no reason to retreat from our stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Exeter Misunderstanding. | 5/18/1889 | See Source »

...been accomplished this fall, we can see how true at times, is that saying, "Things must grow worse before they can be better." In the spring of 1886 affairs were pretty bad, but it needed the athletic defeats of that season and of last year to enable us to comprehend the complete degeneracy of the artificial system which was ruling us. Last June was the culmination of the bad effects of that system. At the opening of college this fall there was latent a real determination to alone for our past disgrace. This feeling has now become a frank, open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/9/1887 | See Source »

...complete the work so ably begun on Saturday. If the present senior class can remember the days when they were freshmen and can call to mind the performances of the fall of '84, and then the prohibition which was inflicted upon foot-ball in the succeeding year, they will comprehend the magnitude of the labor which has been accomplished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/14/1887 | See Source »

...columns, it is necessary that sittings for this purpose be held immdeately and not put off until spring when every one has his hands full. If the members of the foot-ball eleven prefer to wait a while before having their features immortalized by the camera, we can comprehend and pardon their motive. They can hardly be willing to hand themselves down to posterity with broken noses, scarred cheeks, and blacked eyes. As for the seniors the lines of thought that ennoble the countenance have surely grown sufficiently strong in their three years of hard study to make their portraits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/12/1887 | See Source »

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