Word: nothingnesses
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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"When Charles Lamb complained of the decay of beggers in the metropolis, he was surely thinking more of those who appeal for charity in the streets than of those who haunt the doors of our lodgings. These latter are the ones who besiege us, and nuisances they are. If I...
IN a recent number of the Advocate there appeared an article dealing severely with those who dare to complain of the instruction Harvard furnishes. Forgetting that few men feel at liberty to mention special cases, and forgetting, too, that, were this done, an article would be rendered unfit for publication...
THE Class Supper of the Sophomores took place at the Parker House on Friday, the 21st ult. All the arrangements of the committee seemed perfect. The banquet was spread in the room of mirrors, and nothing could be more brilliant or suggestive of good cheer than the scene presented as...
Next came that Western growth of poetry, of which Bret Harte wrote a great deal that is good, and others a great deal that is not good. But, be it good or bad in its execution, the influence of poetry which celebrates one noble act as a full atonement for...
An infusion of some new life seemed necessary, and to this end the members worked sedulously to diversify and render the performances interesting by every means in their power. These efforts were successful in a marked degree, and the society can point to its records for the last six months...