Word: five
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...piano-forte duet. The Glee Club will try conclusions with May-Night, by Abt, Trooper's Song, by Gade, the Dreamy Lake of Schumann, Love's Call, by Becker, and The Spring again Rejoices, by Durrner. The price of admission tickets will be fifty cents; reserved seats, seventy-five cents...
SOME time since an article proposing the establishment of a German society in college appeared in the columns of the Advocate. We are glad to announce that this suggestion was favorably received, and a society formed, which consists at present of some twenty-five members, the limit of membership being thirty. It meets once a week, at the various rooms of the members; by this means the expense of the society is very much lessened. An hour and a half is whiled away in conversation carried on in German, in the use of which language some have attained remarkable proficiency...
...prayers, joined with those of the Advocate, have at length been answered. With great satisfaction we have counted, near Gray, five narrow planks, so skilfully arranged that he who steps thereon repents with wet feet. We have lost a fruitful subject for each number, but is our loss any one's gain? The intention of the College was doubtless good. We hope to see the yard paved with more such good intentions...
This, too, is the system that should be followed in teaching the classics. If the students in these days, as our author says they used to do, came to college, after four or five years of careful preparation, with a sufficient knowledge of the grammatical principles, the drill he objects to would be perhaps superfluous. But do they come so prepared? Most enter college with a knowledge of only the easiest works of all classical literature, such as Caesar, Virgil, Xenophon, and are here saddled with Aristophanes, Sophocles, and Horace. They have all they can do, with the help...
Another reform is "The Harvard University Catalogue." The Catalogue is to all intents and purposes the "same old coon"; but some two hundred pages of interesting Examination-papers and choice advertisements have been generously added, making the "dem'd total" only five times as expensive as its less pretentious predecessor...