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Dates: during 1873-1873
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"The dangers of the days but newly gone."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MULTUM IN PARVO. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

Instead, therefore, of being a cause of complaint that we read so few books, it ought rather to be a source of pleasure to think that we read so many; for the carefully compiled estimate, which announces that each student on the average draws fifteen books in a term year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MULTUM IN PARVO. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

AN article bearing this title, and with the signature of an esteemed contributor to college literature, appeared in a late number of the Vox Humana, a musical journal published in Cambridgeport. The communication appears to us to contain just enough truth to give a color of plausibility to assertions which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC AT HARVARD COLLEGE. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

In asserting that "of the six hundred undergraduates in Harvard College, the proportion who enjoy good classical music is much smaller than it should be, "the writer enunciates a truth, though it can hardly be considered startling in originality. Where are we to find any number of persons, in any...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC AT HARVARD COLLEGE. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

His remarks upon the German Universities would cause us to hide our heads for shame were they supported by the statements of those who have visited them. The fact is that our College songs are quite as good, in proportion to the character of American music, as those of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC AT HARVARD COLLEGE. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

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