Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crews and other individuals run up Brattle street and other streets besides North avenue. North avenue, in previous years, has always been the street on which men who wished outdoor exercise took their run. Having one street thus put apart for the use of students, people who do not like to encounter the crews on the street avoided North avenue in the afternoons. It is certainly unpleasant for ladies walking on the street to find themselves suddenly surrounded by a crowd of scantily clad men running at a good speed. It is therefore no more than just to the Cambridge...
...Senior Class Poem" by Mr. McCleary is a very entertaining and amusing poem and compares very favorably with like poems written of late at Harvard. The bright, vivacious style which is peculiar to this writer is not wanting here...
...Harvard Index for 1887-88 makes its appearance today. In form it is exactly like the Index of last year, but the present volume is much larger. Several new societies and one new publication are chronicled in its pages, viz. the Harvard Banjo 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...
...fact is that the standards are all the time advancing, while methods are improved and facilities are increased. The library statistics form one index to show student work. Here are over 300,000 volumes and a third as many pamphlets which are here for use. They are not kept like the old lady's umbrella, which she boasted she had had for twenty-seven years, "and it's never been wet yet." Some libraries are kept like that. But here they wish to see books worn out, so far as honest use will wear them. New atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, speedily...
When we come to the Harvard Monthly it makes us envious to see one article in each issue signed by some noted name, and we feel like amending the clause in our constitution which limits our contributions to undergraduates. Yet on mature thought we doubt if this would be advantageous. We believe a college publication should be distinctly an exponent of work done by the students of that institution.- Williams Literary Monthly...