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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HOWEVER high a stand Harvard may take in other matters, her position as regards music is not one that does her any credit. True, from the Catalogue we learn that she has a musical professorship and some five courses in music that are pretty well attended. Placards posted from time to time in the Yard, and brief accounts in the Advocate, inform us that a series of concerts is being given at the Sanders Theatre. The College herself has done her share; it is we who are to blame, and justly so, for Harvard's reputation as a college that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC AT HARVARD. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

...first question. Many confined themselves to this one question. Others wrote part of the time on the first, and then answered some of the other questions. On looking over the books the instructor marked them on a scale of 100 for the first question, and then added credit for the other questions; thus in many cases making a mark considerably greater than 100; but to those unfortunates who confined their attention to the first question he refused to give more than 100, which is clearly not the maximum mark, as he has given in several cases a greater one. Clearly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

...morning papers, but the amount of gaslight furnished at Memorial is just large enough to encourage one to run the risk of injuring his eyes. To turn the gas on a trifle more would increase the expense only in a slight degree, while such action would redound to the credit of the Director who should propose it, and of the head-waiter who should carry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...best judgment of the officers, but of course the funds of the Association will not allow the display of much taste. Men should, however, contend for the honor and not the prize. Next year, it is thought, some measures will be taken to make, not the pewter, but the credit attached to winning an event in good style, the object of a man's ambition. We call particular attention to the request contained in our last number, that those intending to join the Association will do so immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...masters, Professor Norton spoke at some length of the work with which Mr. Moore has been occupied during his stay in Italy, and expressed great satisfaction that the College should possess copies of such merit as those Mr. Moore has sent us. Mr. Norton considers these copies a great credit to the artist, as valuable, indeed, as originals; they show extraordinary care and delicacy, such as could have been given by a person of no less talents than Mr. Moore possesses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. MOORE'S STUDIES FROM ITALIAN PAINTINGS. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

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