Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which a whole class is united. At the same time the elective system throws men of different classes together, and tends to make us more a University, where the only distinctions made by the government are in the degree of knowledge obtained, and where Freshmen and Seniors may meet on common ground in the recitation-room. It seems, therefore, a favorable time to try to reunite the "sets" in each class, and to bring together the whole College on some foundation that shall be more lasting than class feeling and more suited to the increasing maturity of Harvard students...
...subscribed to build a house, and then it might be practicable to have a kitchen where a steak and potatoes might be cooked for those who ordered them. At Cambridge the expense to each member is only three pounds a year, and enough money was thus obtained to meet the ordinary expenses of the club and pay five hundred pounds for mortgages, leaving a balance of three hundred pounds on hand. Our expenses need not be so great, for we should have no mortgages and would not spend so much at first for books and salaries. I hope that this...
...apparently written by a Cornell graduate, for in almost every line a comparison is drawn between the two Universities, which is almost invariably unfavorable to us. For example, the sign of "John Smith, Groceries and Provisions," and the tones of the ubiquitous hand-organ are said to meet the eye and ear at Cambridge; while a "view of lake and valley stretching miles away," and the "music of the barcadilla, leaping from cliff to cliff," delight the inhabitant of Ithaca. The writer admits, however, that Memorial Hall is "simply magnificent," and that our Library is "managed in a much more...
...pages of Cassell and peer deep into the works of Cuvier; though he even join the Harvard Natural History Society and listen to the learned discourses of that august body, - though he do any or all of these, the chances are ten to one he will never once meet with that strange creature, the literary butterfly. Yet it is not a rara avis of which I speak; nor do I tell quaint fables of learned animals of the olden time; for even now, here in our midst, several species of this animal are found. To speak scientifically, literary butterflies...
Long study of the conversation-book had rendered me confident of my ability to speak the language with native elegance and fluency. But my confidence was destined to meet with a rude shock. I had been wandering about the city, and on returning to the wharf asked a boatman to "take me to the ship," in what I fondly supposed was the choicest Portuguese. "Si, si, Mr. Merican man, me understand you," was the encouraging rejoinder. That was enough for me. I confined myself to pantomime afterwards, except in one instance, when my success was still more startling...