Word: hall
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...wish to dispute with the reviewer on Mr. Lowell's "absolute right to deal with Professor Masson as the Nation might deal with a Sophomore," but if he could see the well-attended readings at Harvard Hall he would find another evidence of the weakness of his assertion, and that we owe our love of literature not a little to Mr. James Russell Lowell...
...bulletin-board of commanding appearance has been placed in University Hall. A Freshman succeeded in embodying a hidden compliment to the Secretary, in the quotation which his ever-ready pencil inscribed near by: "Read not lightly what's writ with care...
...fifth is on that well-worn subject, Memorial Hall, and lays considerable stress on the fact of eight barrels of meat "in an advanced state of de-co position" having been seen hoisted from the cellar, and probably thrown away. Taking into account the frequent changes in the weather, and the large amount of meat consumed at Memorial Hall, this fact does not necessarily show any mismanagement or useless waste. In a quasi-supplement to this article, a reasonable statement, indirectly from Mr. Farmer, is scoffed at, and treated with many exclamation-marks...
...CORRESPONDENT of the Oxford and Cambridge Journal is much disturbed by the fact that certain undergraduates will persist in dining in Hall in "the hideous mixtures which tailors delight to turn out." According to this writer, "black coats are the only garments in which it is decent for gentlemen to dine in the society of gentlemen"; and he thinks that fines ought to be imposed upon all undergraduates who are ill-bred enough to wear anything else...
...customary well-dressed and eminently respectable audience which usually attends any performance of the Harvard student assembled last Saturday evening in Beethoven Hall, Boston, to witness some theatricals given in part by graduate members of the Hasty Pudding Club for the benefit of the New England Hospital...