Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...best amateur actors seen in college for a number of years. We hope then, for the sake of the Boat Club, for the sake of the society which has spent so much time and labor on them, and for the sake of those who enjoy a good play, that there will not be a single vacant seat at the performance next Thursday...
...rooms, as exists here, perhaps even as strong as that which burns so fiercely in the breast of Dr. Dix. We should not be surprised even to learn that this dislike had as high an origin. We believe there are among the Boston friends of the movement many who enjoy that greatest of earthly luxuries, the luxury of knowing that one's own views on any subject are simply an embodiment of the Divine will. - [N. Y. Post...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Will the time never come when boxing shall be omitted from the winter meetings? Cannot something be done to hasten this desirable time? As a recreation, or as a means of exercise, it is heartily to be commended to any who enjoy it, but when two persons are pitted against each other, before an audience of gentlemen, until one of them is so far hurt that he cannot hit as hard as his antagonist, and is consequently knocked about at pleasure, it seems as if it were carrying things too far. While there can be no possible...
...should not Cambridge - or Oxford, for that matter - be allowed to enjoy theatrical performances in term time? This momentous question is once more being agitated at the former university, and the unhappy vice-chancellor, burdened as he is with the absurd privilege of deciding it, is being bombarded with petitions from the friends and enemies of the mimetic art. Placed in this trying situation, the vice-chancellor, in accordance with time-honored practice, will probably take the wrong view and deprive the 34,000 inhabitants of Cambridge of every opportunity of seeing plays, lest the tender and inexperienced minds...
...professors in the Greek and Latin departments, opportunities have been offered for hearing the classics read. On questions of exercise and hygiene we have heard many good lectures and received good advice. Now why cannot this system of lecturing be carried out in other subjects? All of us would enjoy this kind of instruction in French, German, Natural History, Fine Arts and other such important subjects. As we are denied the advantages of study in the Harvard Observatory, under the able men who control it, we would especially appreciate evening lectures, by which we might acquire some general knowledge...