Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...following are the officers of the Glee Club for the present term: R. H. Dana, President; F. H. Lombard, Vice-President; V. Y. Bowditch, Secretary; H. W. Broughton, Treasurer; A. W. Foote, Leader...
...upon him; he secludes himself in his room, sometimes to emerge and rush frantically to recitation, returning at the same tremendous pace at its conclusion; he knows only one or two congenial spirits with whom he takes a "constitutional" of twenty minutes every day. He too will follow his leader, continuing to live in an atmosphere redolent of ninety-five per cent, sowing at once the seeds of knowledge as to the mind and consumption as to the body. Muffin takes Fumbler's old position on the nine, and to Crab and Warnings naturally succeed Feather and Lurker...
...trying to get a general idea of all the elective studies, rather than an accurate knowledge of a few. This desire for a little of everything seems to result in part from a very imperfect conception of what is called Culture, - that movement of which Matthew Arnold was the leader, and of which he himself says that its aim is the perfection of our human nature on all its sides, in all its capacities; that it presses ever onwards to an ampler growth, to a gradual harmonious expansion of those gifts of thought and feeling which make the peculiar dignity...
...here for years. Both societies showed great improvement, and especially the Pierians, who seem to have succeeded in creating quite good music in place of the woful discords we have been accustomed to expect and receive from them. The society is certainly most fortunate in possessing such an efficient leader as Mr. Dodge, and it is a source of profound regret that he is a Senior and will graduate so soon...
...thing was needed to make him perfect, he must be proved to be the perpetrator of crimes, - and that was done; he had been the leader of a band of robbers, everybody asked him to dinner; he had been accused of murder, his reputation was established. His poetry, which was by no means bad, found its way across the water, where he was received by John Bull as a new phenomenon of American life. Meanwhile, the critics were as kind as they could have been if bribed; they occupied themselves more harmlessly than ever before or since, - they sorted...