Word: evening
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pins, pencils, or other small articles drop into the pianos." But right here this leads us to remark the strange oversight of the writers of these bright sayings. For instance, in this last the articles are limited to small ones; now stoves or coal-hods, or even axes, would certainly injure the tone of pianos into which they are dropped, the opinion of Cambridge firemen to the contrary, not withstanding. But the most singular characteristic of this ancient institution, as recorded here, is the marking off of divisions of the day by signal-bells instead of by hours: thus...
...papers already established will treat the new-corner harshly. We, certainly, are not so bowed down by years that we can consistently look upon every innovation in the literature of the College as a permanent evil. The field the Lampoon has chosen by no means encroaches upon our ground, - even if it did, we should be rather glad than sorry, - and we can assure its editors that any jokes at our expense will be taken always in the spirit they are made. Judging from its first number, the paper does not intend to be of as terrible a nature...
...tardiness with which the order of our semiannuals was announced this year has brought out complaints loud and long from even our habitual leaders on the rank-list. It may be a matter of small interest to our ever-respected Faculty that a general change in the order of examinations is made during the week preceding the semiannuals; that certain men are thereby invited to three or four examinations in the first few days of our festivities, and that of necessity the brevity of their preparation is likely to be rivalled only by that of the answers in their blue...
Such were my reflections on reading the last number of the Advocate. I agree with the editors of that paper that our situation is appalling, but on thinking of it further I have come to the conclusion that even they have not fully realized the entirely depraved condition...
...opinion active measures should be taken at once to prevent such fearful results, and results even more to be feared. "In man there is nothing great but mind"; why then should we let anything take us for a moment from our minds? We come here to cultivate them; why then attend to anything else? It is a waste of time to take three hours a day from this short life of ours and devote them to filling our stomachs with food; to occupy precious moments (when we might be storing our minds instead of our stomachs) with an employment which...