Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...take great pleasure in being able to print the following from a letter of Mr. Justin Winsor on a subject which may be of interest to men who are looking for employment on leaving college...
...that in fitting one's self for work in a miscellaneous library the best thing to be proficient in is literary history and general bibliography. As to languages, one need hardly hope to do his duty without a working knowledge of French and German; and Latin is of great help in dealing with various other languages. There is no language without new help accompanying its acquisition...
...Advocate appeared Saturday afternoon. If the editorials of the last number were strong and vigorous, those of the present number are deserving of still greater praise. The majority of them are on that interesting theme, football, and the feeling which at present pervades the colleges is expressed with great clearness and force. It is hard under such circumstances to keep always within the bounds of good taste, but the editors in handling this delicate matter have made a manly, straightforward condemnation of a great injustice done to Harvard, and their good taste deserves to be commended. There are no spiteful...
...Beach" is a short piece of description which is deserving of great praise. The scene is clearly brought before the reader's eyes. There is a reality in those waves tossing and tumbling which suggests a wonderful power of description in the writer. An admirable poem on Fate follows this and shows a depth of thought seldom exhibited in college poetry. "Unappreciated Talent" is a Seri-comic story written in a very bright vein and serves to lighten up the solemnity which the preceding articles give the paper...
...Club, Guitar and Mandolm Club, Sparring Association, 'Varsity Club, Zoological Club and the Law Review. The Everett Athenxum and the consolidated Sodality and Glee Club do not appear. The leading feature in the volume, however, is the athletic records, on which the editors and their informants have worked with great zeal and patience, making them fuller and correspondingly more interesting. The arrangement of the societies, etc., is about the same as in last year's book, but there is a great improvement in the advertisements, which are better selected and greater in number than heretofore. The typographical errors are numerous...