Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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One of our recent exchanges, in a somewhat extended notice of the Harvard publications, has taken occasion to sneer at one of our papers, and show by invidious comparisons that our publications are not what they profess to be. While we do not desire to question the taste of the...
Active committees have been appointed by both the Overseers of the college and by the Shepard and First Parish churches. A fitting observance of the occasion is anticipated, one that will commemorate the past, and give encouragement for the future.
President McCosh, of Princeton, has a curious habit, when disturbed in any way, of chewing the knuckle of his thumb. On one occasion when he had been lecturing on the relations of good and evil of the world, he was asked by some inquisitive divinity student to explain the origin...
The man who is obliged to peruse his "unabridged" on the slightest occasion, and who cannot write half a page without looking up a dozen words, may read the following with every feeling of satisfaction and pleasure. A recent essay on the subject of spelling and reading English gives voice...
The remarks in the above are exceedingly suggestive. There are at least two elements in Harvard life, one corresponding to the mind, the other to the body, Harvard intellectual and Harvard athletic. But for the time at least Harvard athletic has more "fame" than Harvard intellectual; the athletes seem to...