Word: particularly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When Mr. Irving was asked to give an address to the students, it was suggested that it would probably make a very pleasant occasion if Harvard men and their friends were allowed to purchase as great a portion of the tickets for some particular evening as they wished to do. Mr. Irving and the management were favorable to the idea, and the matter was, by them, entrusted to the CRIMSON. It was thought to be the most fitting mode of procedure to ask the presidents of the two upper classes to select a committee which should put the idea into...
...Richard Henry Dana was introduced by President Eliot to speak of the way of securing Civil Service Reform. He gave many illustrations of particular cases in explanation of the general method adopted, which is that of careful examination in all branches of the service. It has been objected to this that the examinations could not be adequate, and would be easily passed by young and inexperienced men. Such is far from being the case. The questions asked are invariably such as need experience and special fitness to answer them, as is amply proved by the fact that almost without exception...
...information given above, together with much more of particular interest to those who desire to enter the Summer School, is contained in a leaflet issued last December by Professor N. S. Shaler. Fifty thousand of these leaflets, with circulars of the Lawrence Scientific School, are soon to be sent to all the large common and preparatory schools between Maine and Oregon. In the South they will be sent only to a few of the largest schools. The work and aims of the Scientific and Summer Schools have never been well known outside of New England, and it is hoped that...
...resources of the paper are by no means professional. Limitations mean imperfections, and, in consequence, the ideal CRIMSON and the actual CRIMSON are necessarily apart. Steadily, however, the gap between the two has been diminished by the work of previous boards, and the retiring ninety-four board in particular, have done great service to the paper by the number of solid improvements which they have made. It will be the endeavor of the incoming board to continue their work and constantly to make the paper better fitted to fulfil its function...
...Edwin Booth as an actor, with particular reference to Bertuccio, Iago, Hamlet, King lear, Richard Third, and Shylock. There will be reading from Shakespeare...