Word: evening
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Loud complaint is heard on all sides about the wretched ventilation of the library. Even the poor facilities for furnishing the reading-room with fresh air, are not taken advantage of and consequently the atmosphere in the library is abominable...
...team has trained patiently without any encouragement from the college. Year after year it has brought back the championship to Harvard, sometimes all alone in its glory. And what comes of it? Is any celebration arranged in honor of the event? Are the members of the winning team rewarded even with the faintest praise for their exertions and success? Are cups voted them? The CRIMSON devotes half a column to an editorial congratulating the members of the team and the college at large for having such a team. That is all, and one of the worthiest of the scanty number...
...knowledge about the private life of the Greeks. These vases have been preserved by being enclosed in tombs, and were not, as some have thought, especially designed for funeral purposes, but were articles in daily use. Their graceful shapes, combined with their lightness and durability, would excite our wonder even without the pictures with which they are decorated. The Greek artist was above all a craftsman, and delighted in showing his skill on household vessels. By means of the 20,000 or more specimens which we possess, we can trace the progress of art from the stiff archaic types...
...urging our readers to attend the Authors' Reading to be held in Sander's Theatre on the evening of Feb. 27th, we feel that we are advocating a highly worthy object. It may, perhaps, be well to state that the reading is given in aid of the Longfellow Memorial Fund, and that several well-known authors, among them Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, have promised to read selections from their works. The entertainment cannot fail to be interesting, and the object is so worthy that we are anxious to impress on all that...
...work to be carried on. The university is designed for the education of all, regardless of race or color. It comprehends primary, grammar and college courses, while useful training in mechanics can be obtained. The excellence of the institution and its advantages to the State are acknowledged by even its enemies. Five sixths of the colored teachers in Atlanta are graduates of the university and a large proportion is found in all the cities of Georgia. The Atlanta University deserves support for its stubborn attempt to elevate the colored race and to extinguish the hated race distinction...