Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Etas will give an entertainment at Union Hall, Cambridgeport, on the evening of Wednesday, May 3. An original farce, entitled "Class Day," will be produced, followed by the burlesque of "Villikins and his Dinah." The Pierian Sodality and the Cambridge Amateur Orchestra will furnish instrumental music. Tickets can be obtained at Thayer 47, or of members of the society...
...only do these readings give one a much broader basis for intellectual culture in the future, but they assist materially in brushing up one's knowledge of a language. AEschylus is reputed hard, yet under Mr. Goodwin's guidance it was very easy to follow the text, and one felt his knowledge of the language increased while he caught the spirit of the original much more completely than from a book translation. Whether it was owing to the more general acquaintance with French among our students, or the attractiveness of Moliere, or the excellence of the rendering by the professor...
...burlesque, and so frequently did there occur conflicting opinions, that it was impossible to form any idea of the article as a whole. Many unacquainted with college life must have thought there were facts there well concealed, and this is where the harm comes in; we must not give any grounds for the formation of mistaken conceptions. From the nature of the subject, or from its treatment, very few would judge the article referred to to be burlesque, because it is the very essence of a burlesque that the subject be familiar. That this subject is in any sense...
...unwilling, however, to accept the statement without a struggle. If there is on the staff of the "comic journal" a Mr. Digby who asks questions of instructors to give the impression that he is much interested in what he is studying, is there no one to be found elsewhere who really has the interest which the distinguished artist assumes? Are there not many men, on the other hand, who, not having any particular interest in what they are doing, nevertheless make no pretence to seem interested? There are, I think, three classes of students, - those who have a real interest...
...that fair land whose honors men can give...