Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Divinity avenue, the shorter one stretching from Divinity avenue to Frisbie place, parallel with Kirkland street, but set back from it some 100 feet. The space between the two wings is conceived of as an ornamental court, with shrubs, statuary, and waterbasins, connected with the Museum itself by cloister-like arcades running along Kirkland street and Frisbie place. A massive tower rising at the point of junction of the two main wings holds the various parts of the design firmly together. Thus the whole structure is marked by a happy combination of diversity and unity, of picturesqueness and monumental effect...
...dinner in honor of Professor Palmer. Due praise is given for Professor Palmer's share in the growth and development of the Department of Philosophy, but special emphasis is laid on his "power of the single word, of the patiently adjusted expression, of the gemlike sentence or paragraph." In like spirit of appreciation is the Greek epigram by E. K. Rand '94, in honor of Professor Palmer, given also in English verse by the versatile author. It was a happy thought to write in Greek of one who has been so true an expositor of the Greek spirit...
...than German A, or History 1, has by no means proved hat he has either the ability or the inclination to persevere; and if it is only the chance of an early election to the Phi Beta Kappa that makes him work in the first year, one would like to ask whether his efforts, and whether he really deserves election...
...class-room, in a manner that would be absolutely impossible were the election conducted under a hard-and-fast rule, in which a certain number of A's meant election. Such a system would lay the emphasis more strongly than ever on what Phi Beta Kappa, like the CRIMSON, believes to be over-emphasized already,--marks in courses...
...clubs at Harvard formed to unite men from various sections of the country. The purpose of these clubs is on the whole social; they bring together for an evening meeting or, in the case of the larger clubs, for meals and social purposes, a number of men who have like home interests. In so far as they give pleasure to their members, the clubs justify their existence; but they might, through establishing closer relations with their home Harvard clubs, be of much greater influence in helping to make a more unified Harvard spirit throughout the country...