Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well known in his department, although perhaps on a less popular branch of the study, are deserving of large attendance. The science so thoroughly developed by Rawlinson and lately by Schliemann and his co-workers has become a common and widely interesting part of human knowledge. Even part of the news of the daily press of late years has been reports of the successes or failures of archaeologists working upper the direction of states or through individual effort...
This week Prof. Lanciani concludes his course of lectures on Roman Archaeology. These lectures have proved most enjoyable and instructive, not only to members of the college, but also to the large numbers of Cambridge people who have attended them regularly. It is not a common occurrence, even here at Harvard, to be favored with intercourse with a man of Prof. Lanciani's broad culture and learning. His lectures derive especial interest from the fact that all that he tells us is the result of his personal researches...
...enlargement. There is more community of feeling between the students than in former years although they have come together from thirty-two different colleges and they have an annual "Commemoration Day" observed in the same manner as Class Day. They also have clubs for debate and amusement and have even gone so far as to provide themselves with a tennis court...
...contrast to the uncomfortable grandeur of English public dinners. The audience had come to listen and did not waste time needlessly! (This exclamation mark is our own.) There was no formality, cigars were speedily lighted and every one prepared to endure the speeches as long as speeches were forthcoming. Even the departure of the president at half-past four did not break up the company, which sat without any display of weariness till half-past seven. Truly the Americans are a patient and much enduring race...
...seniors held their class day elections last Thursday. The balloting was the scene of much bickering and "wire-pulling." Some claim that there was underhand dealing; at any rate, a number of the most prominent men in the class were left in the cold, not even getting on the class day committee...