Word: often
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Over half the men in college live here for four years without attempting to adorn their rooms in the slightest. The walls are bare, the floor, or carpet, worn and often times very dirty, the furniture of a most unattractive nature, and no taste whatever displayed in the choice of window hangings. Now it may be said that it is not for all of us to be apostles of "sweetness and light," or even to be true disciples of Oscar Wilde; but it is possible for every man with a little care to keep his room clean and tidy...
...accomplish the purpose for which it was employed, - to provoke good critical work carefully done. In the second particular the practice is one which distinctly does not tend to improve the student's style. Improvement of style is not to be attained by a perusal of laborious, crude, and often abortive college compositions, but by a study, and a hard study at that, of the best works of the masters of English prose. Arnold, Shelley (letters), Fielding, Huxley and Webster may be read and studied to advantage if improvement is desired in the power of criticism, description, narration, exposition...
...Herkomer, professor of fine arts at Oxford, lectured on "Notoriety in Art" last evening, before a large and appreciative audience in Sever 11. Popularity, the speaker said, comes to work of a commonplace character too often. There is a course of indolence which hangs over work in art. The artist is compelled to choose between two audiences, the public or his fellow artists. The public are the makers of the artist's notoriety. The great drawback upon an artist's work is the "art-loafer" who talks himself and the artist into notoriety. Too easy publicity prevents the artist...
...privilege not often vouchsafed a Cambridge audience to hear such a soloist as Mr. Joseffy, and it is a double honor to have him here before he appears in Boston. His selection was Beethoven's fourth concerto, in G major. Of Mr. Jeseffy's technique, of his remarkable execution and the wonderful ease and clearness with which he overcomes all difficulties, it is hardly necessary to speak. His interpretation of the concerto is individual and displays the same calmness and self-control which is characteristic of his technique. Still, fire and spirit are not wanting, making the performance eminently satisfactory...
...particularly subject to its unconquerable power. All people are aroused when cholera or small-pox is prevalent, and yet they take but few precautions against the greater evil of consumption. Alcohol, syphilis, want of pure air and good food are all productive of this terrible disease. Inherited consumption can often be cured by proper habits and regulations of life. When anyone is told to take fresh air for his consumptive troubles, he ought to keep out of doors all the time. We ought to make ourselves stronger, that our children may be started in life with better health and stronger...