Word: givings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...impossible to give any idea of the monotony which attended these lectures. If we only had had an opportunity to bet on which would win, the Professor or Reid, we might have kept awake voluntarily; but even that feeble excitement was denied us. Dread of an examination was all that kept us from going to sleep. And the dread was fully justified by the examination when it came: "In a certain case, what is the defence advocated by Reid and Stewart, and what are Hamilton's objections to it, - explaining, also, his defence?" "Give in full the rules...
SOME members of the II H Society will give a theatrical entertainment in Brookline next Tuesday evening. The programme will consist of the travesty Fra Diavolo, and the farce A Cup of Tea. No one need hesitate to purchase tickets for fear of "the powers that be," as the performance is not given "in the name of Harvard students...
...personages forthwith entered upon an extended tour in company. For months their popularity continued undiminished. The hit made by this combination was immense. The Fiend and the Phoenix were quoted far and wide. Even after the immediate appropriateness of their use was past, the newspaper men could n't give them up. It is but recently that a leading Boston daily ascribed a very modest and unpretentious conflagration to that same old demon, - the Fire-Fiend...
...COMPLAINT comes to us that some underclassmen appear reluctant to give up their rooms to the Seniors on Class Day, as has been the custom for nearly thirty years. Indeed, in one case a Sophomore is said to have broken squarely the engagement he had made as a Freshman, and, when expostulated with, to have excused himself by saying that he was going to invite a large party of his own friends to visit him on the day in question! The old custom is a pleasant one, and there is no reason that it should be broken...
...wonder at. Some of its exchanges it treats very cavalierly, but for the most part its criticism is fair. The "Department of the Alumnae" we hesitate either to praise or blame. What reason, however, can there be that the author of the plea for an election system should give the following advice? "Elect stern simplicity in dress..... Elect muscle for physical dependence. Dare to mount a wall unassisted; and, further-more, choose a five-mile walk, with a study of nature's coloring by the way, in place of working dogs and dahlias in worsted. Elect a course of reading...