Word: openings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...discouraging, and makes us hope that the rumor of Professor Adams's return may prove to be true. The electives in Oral Discussion and Modern German Literature have already been announced with more or less comment in the College papers. Some disappointment is felt because the former elective is open to Seniors only, and, in fact, we doubt if it would be overcrowded, or its usefulness lessened, if Juniors were allowed to take it, as they are allowed to take its companion course, English...
...change in the breakfast-hour at Memorial is a signal for the growler to open his lips again. He has importuned us with his complaints every day since the announcement of the change, and has asked us to write an editorial on the subject. He has brought forward all the arguments used of old against such change, and he insists most vehemently on the point that, to force a man to get up and breakfast between the hours of a quarter past seven and half past eight, is manifestly a return to those barbarous customs which...
...their Senior year, or who may find it profitable to take this one-hour course for two consecutive years. If, as has been affirmed, Harvard men generally lack the power of easy, off-hand speaking, ought not an elective, intended to remedy this defect, to be open to other classes besides Seniors? Or if this elective is too advanced for the under classes, cannot something elementary be given...
...Lear and C. T. Sanctuary (dead heat). 11 sec.; 440-yards handicap, C. T. Sanctuary (5 yds.), 53 4/5 sec.; high jump, M. F. Remington, 5 ft. 1 in.; 440 yards, J. E. Masters, 55 1/5 sec.; mile-race, P. A. Sullivan, 4 min. 54 sec.; 1000-yards open handicap, R. C. Black (St. Albans...
...wasp's-nest presented by one of the students; on the third side was the library, consisting of about four hundred volumes, mostly publications of the American Tract Society; a large picture of the founder of the College, - a red-faced man gazing thoughtfully into the distance while an open volume of Plato rests on his knee (the founder made his money by selling mules to the government, and, it was currently reported, could not read, so the Plato, I fear, was an artistic fiction) - hung on the fourth side, and about it were three or four chromos...