Word: may
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dimensions of the case may seem larger than is required; but allowance has been made for future additions, which we trust may never be wanting. Besides, it is intended to make the collection a complete one of the balls we have won by the University Nine since its organization in 1865. Second-hand balls will be purchased to take the places of those lost or not kept, fifty in all. These will be painted, and lettered with the name of the defeated club, score and date. The balls will cost $25, the painting, etc, of the balls now on hand...
...asked from each individual is not large: no class need claim the honor of having given more than another, and surely no class wishes to be left out of the inscription. We shall all leave a fitting reminder of Harvard's prowess in the ball-field of which we may well be proud...
...that to our uneducated mind an ordinary man is a more pleasing object than a being who, in addition to the pleasing peculiarities above-mentioned, has a parallelogram for a body, a square for a head, straight lines for limbs, and dots for features; but we confess that this may be only prejudice...
...Nassau Literary Magazine, the Cornell Review, the Parker Quarterly, and the Lafayette College Journal. The Review is interesting, and well edited. The oration on "The Speeches of Mark Antony and Brutus in Shakespeare" is better suited for delivery; in reading it the style is too interjectional, and, if we may be allowed the expression, too jerky. The article on Wordsworth shows thought, and the reasoning is good, but unfortunately the writer, in quoting the verses beginning...
...services in chapel. Its argument in their favor is somewhat as follows: Our course of study is more like that of Oxford and Cambridge than that of other American colleges. Our new buildings are "after the plan of the old English University system" (whatever the plan of a system may be), therefore we should go further and have Latin prayers, because these are used in the English universities. To begin with, we should like to know how a course of study can be at once like those of Oxford and Cambridge, which are essentially different from each other. Secondly, granting...