Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Leahy's "Drama" still appears in fragmentary form. The selection in this number is inferior to that in the last, and a little ponderous. Mr. Leahy, although his command of figures and similes is perhaps his strongest point, could introduce fewer without harming his verse. These selections are interesting and in many parts exceedingly beautiful, but they suffer from isolation...
...know that many other students agree with me in this matter. They not only think the new system no improvement, but they thing it in every way inferior...
...annual president's reports; they are replete with information of the concisest and most valuable kind. A history of Harvard compiled solely on the basis of these publications would be in itself a very excellent book. President Eliot's report for the past year is in no way inferior to its predecessors; on the contrary it again records many momentous changes, wrought and to be wrought in the government of the university...
...meat croquettes (vulgarly called by some hash), are of an inferior qualiand the milk is growing thinner and thinner. One of the chaps got off quite a joke on it the other day. He said that the cow that gave that milk must have been suffering with the disease known as water on the brain. He was immediately carried from the table on the shoulders of the crowd and also received the election as humorous editor of the Lampoon...
...works of art is too well known to need further support. Though the Boston Museum of Art affords a very fine store of such works, we very much fear that the number of Harvard men to be found in its halls is small. If we had even a much inferior collection near at hand, good results would no doubt follow...