Word: expression
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Letters alone. Henry B. McDowel of the class of '78 is president of the organization and Barret Wendell, Bliss Carman and other Harvard men are actively interested. The experiment has been tried with success in New York and the company is now on a tour, the express purpose of which is to test whether of not the public and be interested in so called "literary plays". The first performance tonight will, to a great extent, prove the success of the venture in Boston. "The Squirrel Inn" is certainly typical of the style of play in which the company would interest...
...adoption when once the inertia of the public has been overcome: Intelligent people ought to see to it that this inertia does not prevent the prompt action necessary to secure this great boon at slight cost. Is it not a case in which Harvard men may fittingly express by their cooperation with the Commission-headed as it is by an honored graduate and benefactor of the University-their intelligent interest in the welfare of the community...
...subjects, and the matter is well handled. That upon the change in the examination system at Princeton is sound and we must all agree with the author that we have a noble example in Princeton and hope that we are men enough to follow it. The other editorials certainly express college opinion except that on the Harvard-Yale debate which does not express much of anything. The first article of the number is a sketch of the college life of the late Samuel Foster McCleary by one of his classmates...
...thief in the act. Apparently Harvard must suffer continually from the thieving of men who seem to make a regular profession of picking pockets, lockers and in fact of appropriating to themselves whatever they can safely lay their hands upon. It is useless to waste words in trying to express the disgust and contempt which everyone feels for such specimens of humanity. It is supposed that a man contemptible enough to steal is proof against any sensitiveness at the epithets which might justly be heaped upon him. We sincerely wish he were not, for it would be a pleasure...
...services in Appleton Chapel last evening were conducted by Rev. W. B. King of Christ Church, who took for his text II Peter I, 5, "Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue." It is remarkable how single words often express in their development the history of whole phases of human history. The word "virtue" in the text is a fitting example. The Greek word used by St. Peter had a simple meaning compared with its translation, a meaning parallel to "virtus" from which we get our word. It meant all that is brave and manly, all that is distinctly...