Word: particular
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of the Advocate is a particularly good one, and contains a number of well written articles, as well as some bright poetry. The Wanderings of Alexis is written in a good, nervous style which shows the influence of modern French prose in its liveliness, and it contains some good thought. An Effigy written by a graduate of '41 relates an amusing incident in early college life, and the Portrait of a Pencil is a very well conceived tale. In Dr. Palmer's Experiment we have another of the double-identity stories which are so frequent in current literature...
...Reaction in Political Economy," written in his lucid, entertaining style, it shows forcibly the transition stage through which Political Economy is now passing. Mr. Arthur T. Hadley contributes a paper on "Private Monopolies and Public Rights," which treats the subject in a very concise and interesting manner, with particular attention to railroad monopolies. "Silver before Congress in 1886" is the title of an article by Mr. S. Dana Norton. The complicated question is discussed with a simplicity and directness rarely found, when difficult financial problems are set before the general reader. The part of the magazine devoted to "Notes...
...Pierian Sodality holds its first meeting to-morrow for the examination of candidates for the coming year. Every upperclassman recalls how prosperous the society was in every regard last year. Its successes, musical and financial, were entirely unprecedented. Everybody and those who are best able to judge music in particular, spoke favorably of the high degree of perfection which the orchestra achieved in its rendition of some of the more ambitious compositions which it performed. The bulk of the material of the orchestra is now of two years standing, as the club has lost only about seven men since...
...suggestion is, that the faculty forbid intercollegiate contests on the part of Harvard students; and (pending this action) that parents forbid their sons to subscribe to the particular organizations by which such contests are now kept...
...freshman celebration on Monday night that celebrations can be made enjoyable without being obnoxious. This being so, why skulk about the yard till twelve o'clock, to build a bon-fire out of two soap boxes and an old hat? Does it signify exuberant joy? Is there any particular pleasure in setting off surreptitious fire-crackers at long intervals during the night, or pelting an instructor's panes with torpedoes? Is a tin horn an unvarying accompaniment to extreme gratification? The truth is that all these puerilities gain their only attraction when under prohibition. There is some exhilaration in being...