Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...novelty of the entertainment would no doubt suffice to fill the gallery for months to come, but popular interest might eventually decline unless proper stimulants were offered. To meet this difficulty I should propose the following plan...
...must not be supposed that any regulations have been made about the Glee Club and Pierian concerts, for such is not the case. For our own part, we should be inclined to doubt whether the argument, even if sound in regard to ball-playing, could be fairly applied to such societies. They certainly could not survive through any other means, and their existence is a pleasure to many friends outside the College, and a good influence...
...Every Saturday, after the issue of October 31, is to be merged in Littell's Living Age, its old and more pretentious rival. There seems to be no good reason for the maintenance of two eclectic magazines which cover nearly the same ground, and we have no doubt that whatever we lose in the Every Saturday will be gained in the increased vigor of the conduct of the Living...
...addition of a pat of butter. Indeed, if the moral improvement had not shown itself from the opening of the hall, the behavior of the students would have to be attributed to the lecture on table-etiquette, which was reported in the last Advocate. There can be no doubt that the advice there given will tend to cause still further progress toward a higher civilization...
...prospects of the Harvard Medical College were never better. The number joining it from the class of 1874 was unusually large. The effort now being made towards the erection of a new building is well supported, and will no doubt result in success...