Word: credited
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...contributions were far from a credit to them as vocalists. The committee are in no wise to blame in the matter as they had every reason to expect a rich treat would be given their patrons and are thoroughly disgusted that the managers of the Harvard Glee club, with whom they contracted for a first class entertainment, and for which they paid a large price, should have sent them a gang of young fellows who if they can sing well did not, and whose deportment behind the curtain and before the footlights was certainly not what is to be expected...
...opinion until he should be able to investigate the matter more carefully. As it has now been conclusively determined that the race was won by Mr. Bardeen, I feel that it is only just that the truth of the matter should be known, and that he should receive the credit, and if possible the prize...
Silver cups, engraved with the names of the several winners each week, will be given as prizes to the man in each of the classes who has the greatest number of points to his credit...
Through his many writings, Professor Bowen extended his influence beyond his class room, and brought additional credit to himself and the university. His literary style, shaped by early and long continued practice, attained a remarkable vigor of direct and effective exposition. The variety of the topics which he treated-logic, ethics, metaphysics, the history of Philosophy, the history of the United States, political economy, theology, The Bible, Latin, poetry, mathematics-attests his belief in the unity of knowledge and in the value of all its parts for personal culture. He was a humanist, not a specialist. The nature...
...descriptive parts are well written but the style of the piece as a whole is a little crude. "Number 749" a matrimonial bureau story, is well written, but would hardly pass as realistic. "Henry Dunster" invests that historic old character with sentiments which do not ordinarily do him credit. "Tom's Story" is effectively told...