Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doubtlessly a great source of annoyance and inconvenience for those who rely upon gas-light by which to do their evening reading, to have the light grow so dim that they can scarcely distinguish the letters before them. Such a state of affairs must, however, be borne with the best grace possible for the next two or three days. A leak has been discovered in one of the principal gas mains in Cambridgeport and while this is being repaired, the college dormitories are dependant upon the gas supply brought over from East Cambridge. The work of repairing has been rendered...
Colonel T. W. Higginson, in his lecture last evening in Sever 11, said that the number of men actually engaged in literature as a profession in the United States was small, and, even with the addition of the journalists, amounted to only thirteen thousand. This is not remarkable, as the profession of literature is of recent origin, and only the vast extension of printing in the last forty years has rendered it possible. Every man must choose his occupation with reference to his own natural gifts. If wealth is the only object of life, not literature but all the professions...
...conditions superior to mortality. Of the various kinds of immortality mentioned by the poet only the one which he thought most doubtful, namely his own reputation, still endures. We have no evidence that his friend had a son, and the sonnets have not preserved for us his name or even his appearance. The words "Time will come and take my love away" have indeed proved truly prophetic...
...Friday evening of this week will be held the annual meeting of the Co-operative society. The business of the meeting will consist of the election of officers and the reading of reports from the various committees and from the superintendent. The past year has been the most successful in the history of the society. Under the system that prevailed up to the beginning of the present year, considerable dissatisfaction was felt to exist, and to remove this the present system was devised by the superintendent, Mr. Waterman, and adopted by the society. The wisdom of this change is shown...
...activity in every department of college work and recreation has been checked for the past few days by the heavy snow storm, which has rendered it almost impossible to get about even on the Campus. All outside communication was cut off and a large proportion of the lectures and recitations were omitted. The base-ball cage was filled with snow, so that the candidates for the nine were unable to practice. The universal amusement has been snow-balling, much to the distaste of tutors and "cops." The various crews will begin rowing on the harbor again as soon...