Word: displays
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cent. of the same number. Errors such as these are fundamental, and no argument can proceed on tables so compiled. We have not had time to go over the figures which the Advocate correspondent gives for Yale in 1889 90 but we have no reason, after such a display of ignorance of the elements of arithmetic, to suppose them correct...
...correspondent is quite right in bewailing any display of "childish" feeling in the present crisis; and yet we do not believe that any such feeling prompted the Athletic committee in their action. Whatever may be the result of their vote they acted on their convictions, prompted by what they believed would be for the best interest of Harvard. For this, at least, they are deserving of credit. But not for this simply. Time will prove that their action was justifiable. Whether outsiders sneer or not is a matter of no consequence. If Harvard has chosen the right course...
...Yale Glee club concert Monday evening opened the annual mid-year week of gaiety. According to the old custom the freshmen tried to display their class numerals, and after the first half of the concert lowered a large transparency bearing the number '93 squarely over the centre of the stage. After the concert the sophomores, greatly enraged at the audacity of the freshmen, seized the transparency and pulled it down. A rush followed in which the police interfered and arrested several of the students...
...year bids fair to be the most prosperous one in the history of the Harvard Annex. At no time since the institution opened has the work in all departments been so satisfactory. The students are earnest and enthusiastic, and in consequence the best results are obtained. The interest they display is a constant stimulation to the professors and instructors, and draws from them their best work...
...ever popular "Erminie" will be given. The engagement began with the production of the latest Casino success, "The Drum Major." The opera is a worthy successor to "The Brigands," which achieved such success in Boston last fall. The military character of the opera affords many opportunities for elaborate scenic display, and all of these have been improved; the opera is a series of beautiful pictures. The march in the last act is a particularly striking feature; the troops, gorgeously arrayed in the regulation French army uniform of the period of the opera, are preceded by a military band; many...