Word: evening
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...just offence to so many men, and was so palpably vulgar. If "Rac" wished to show how far he was removed from those at whom he aims his sarcasm, he has succeeded, for few readers of his article would accuse him of being a member of any literary set, even of a sham...
...best that has yet been devised on this side of the water. Not only does it promote acquaintance and a friendly feeling among men from different parts of the country, but it should also tend to improve our records, and eventually make them equal, or even surpass, those of the English Universities. The spirit of competition ought to draw out the best efforts of the representatives of each college, and the honor of winning in such a contest should be sufficient incentive for hard training on the part of those who intend to enter. The "Relay Race" is especially attractive...
...journalistic enterprise, having some title to be called a representative paper. We are sorry that we cannot say as much of the Harvard Register. As long as Mr. Moses King confined himself to his proper sphere, the publication of guide-books, we refrained from making any attack upon him, even when he had the effrontery to put Harvard College on the title-page of his books. But now that he has invited criticism by coming forward as the sole editor of an alleged Harvard paper, we feel that we owe it to those of our readers who may be unacquainted...
Granting that there is a need for such a journal as he seeks to establish, is not the editor, from a literary point of view, wholly unfit for his position? He is understood to have the support and approbation of the President and Faculty, yet could even its youngest member read the pompous prospectus without blushing for his representative...
...small section of picket fence, and the gate, which adorn the entrance to the Yard next Wadsworth House, are so perfectly useless, that they might well be removed, even though they do add originality to the Yard, being entirely different from the rest of the fence. They cause some delay there at times when men are coming to and from Holyoke House and Little's, and are an unmitigated nuisance. I hope they will be taken away as soon as possible...