Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...picked team from the Shooting Club visited Dedham Saturday afternoon and administered another defeat to their old antagonists, the Dedham Gun Club. The cold and the dazzling sunlight on the snow made good shooting almost an impossibility. The shooting was very even during the first two rounds. At the end of the first Dedham led by one point, and at the close of the second the score was exactly even. Harvard then made a great brace, and in the third and fourth rounds succeeded in scoring eighteen points more than their opponents. The total score was: Harvard, 64; Dedham...
...that little, if anything can be added to the knowledge and skill they already possess. Being thus raised so far above us who have not attained this intellectual height (the "ignoble vulgar" as it were), they altogether for, get that we should like to hear the instructor's words, even though we lose the pleasure and profit of our friends' conversation. Let them not scorn us but pity us and aid us to reach their intellectual eminence...
...along well without aid from the college funds? Let us trust that this omniscient writer himself is not one of these unfortunate high rank men who "almost invariably shun very valuable courses"! This would-be critic is at present unknown, but it is a pity that there should be even one man among us who thinks that he must ape the habits of men more wealthy than himself. Such a man is not likely to be popular among the hundreds of other men who have not discovered, as yet, this "uncongenial aristocratic, and moneyed atmosphere," which is noticed by this...
...avoid religious influences. What effect does compulsion have upon the several classes of persons to whom it is applied? Does it not work more harm than good? So far as members of the church are concerned the effect of compulsion may be disregarded, although it is said that even among these it tends to deaden rather than to stimulate and enliven an interest in religion. But there is good ground for a belief that compulsion tends to repel students who are not Christians and to harden their hearts...
...severest penalties were inflicted on any nun who broke her vow to Vesta. The reverence which even the early Christians felt for this order is shown by the fact that when the Temple of the goddess was confiscated, none of the ornaments or decorations were injured...