Word: extent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HARVARD indifference is spreading to an alarming extent. We have had no concerts in Sanders Theatre this winter, the boat-clubs are in the last stages of decay, and Daniel Pratt informs us that the proceeds of his lectures have diminished within the past five years from...
...firmly established there as a regular annual "institution." Few people are aware that the management of last summer's contest, which was so generally praised as a great success, escaped disastrous failure only by a series of lucky accidents; and quite as few have any proper comprehension of the extent of the difficulties which the manager of such an affair always has to contend against. Provision must be made for all manner of untoward circumstances. which may possibly arise, and every imaginable source of trouble which can be foreseen must be removed in advance. The veriest trifle may destroy...
...usually steady Junior class are said to be cutting recitations to such an extent as to seriously alarm the Faculty. The cause of this delinquency is the feeling which finds a vent in the remark, What is the good of having voluntary recitations if we do not use them? Using voluntary recitations, however, does not consist in cutting unnecessarily; that is abuse. The privilege is given us in order that we may judge for ourselves when it is necessary to absent ourselves, and we certainly ought to be capable of judging. But if we do not follow the dictates...
...glimpse of Motley's college career. Motley entered Harvard College in 1827, at the age of thirteen, and at the end of his Freshman year stood second or third in his class. He made no effort to maintain this rank, and soon neglected his college duties to such an extent that he was "rusticated," which expression Dr. Holmes finds it necessary to define as "sent away from college for a time...
...worthy successor. A powerful cast was secured by choosing the best actors from these classes, and the songs were a selection of the most popular ones that have been given in the college societies for the last three years. This all accounts to a very great extent for the brilliant success of the burlesque in New York. But to all who took part, and to Mr. Arthur Sherwood in particular, is due great praise for the energy displayed in carrying out so difficult an undertaking. The report in a New York paper that Mr. Sherwood was the author of "Fair...