Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Locke, Spinoza, Descartes, etc., were grievously disappointed yesterday morning, upon assembling at Memorial Hall, and finding no intellectual feast, in the way of an examination paper, prepared for them. We understand that the cause of the delay in the examination was that the instructor, who should have been on hand at nine o'clock, wearied himself exceedingly in pointing out, the evening before, the utter want of practicability in the instructor who, a few weeks ago, forgot the hour at which his examination began. So wearied grew our philosopher with his metaphysical argument, that he was really unable to appear...
...fourth inning Couch, the Amherst catcher, was struck on the back of his hand by the striker's bat, and had his thumb broken. This so demoralized the Amherst men that they refused at first to continue the game; but, after a little persuasion, they yielded, and the game went on. At the end of the ninth inning the score stood eleven to nothing in favor of Harvard...
HARVARD papers have always been fortunate in having poetry of a high order. At many colleges, where the prose-writing is really good, the contributions of poetry are made up wholly, or almost wholly, of "elegant extracts." Our papers, on the other hand, have always abounded in original poetry, fully equal to the poetry in the periodicals of the day, and on this point we have long been the object of envy of all our college exchanges...
...Fall of the Rebellious Angels," the "Fall of Cardinal Wolsey," the "Fall of the Year," the "Falls of Niagara," and other kindred subjects; and ultimately you meet him in a small cabinet from which the staircase descends to an oubliette. You receive him with civility and extend your hand. He extends his hand in return. You seize him by the arm, twitch him suddenly around to the head of the staircase, apply the hobnailed shoe to his person, and send him flying down stairs into the oubliette. Then, after the noise of his fall is over, you rearrange your dress...
...recent lecture the Professor of the Fine Arts informed the members of his elective that he should not require them to hand in their blank books previous to the examination, and that he should request the Faculty to allow him to dispense with proctors during the examination. These remarks, coming as they did from an instructor who has always shown himself exceptionally kind and considerate in his relations to the students, as well within the recitation-room as without it, were welcomed by many as a sign that some members of the Faculty, at any rate, while desiring to raise...