Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...student. For by their advice he has been led, not metaphorically speaking, to enter the den of thieves. But is it true? Can any one justly say that student feeling at Harvard is distinctly irreligious? Are we, simply because we are Harvard students, and that is for the most part the argument advanced, hardened followers of Mammon? The writer has frequently heard that glorious gray-haired fable of the Harvard infidel, but he never met the unbeliever but once. The young atheist in question laughed at Christianity and boasted that Buddhism even was a more perfect faith. An older companion...
...Oedipus" in Sanders' Theatre, the actors made all the use they could of earnest and vigorous action and elocution. The Cambridge students, however, delivered their speeches in a calm dignified manner, apparently with the desire to imitate yet more closely the dramatic style in Greek tragedy. The chief parts were played by young men of marked athletic beauty, and the costumes, although not as accurate and well draped as those in our "Oedipus," were good. The part of Pallas Athene, was played by a graduate of Girton College, who gave a charmingly earnest and dignified impersonation of the solemn-eyed...
...they cannot be first they will be nothing. If they have means to live upon, they will drift along in a life of cynicism and pessimism; if not blessed with wealth they will follow that occupation which offers them the means of subsistence with the least effort on their part. Had they only learned the lesson that man's happiness does not depend upon the height to which he rises, but to the well performance of that duty, however humble, which falls to his lot, they would have been happier men and better citizens...
...active, has kept all the best writers in college on the qui vive for the last four months. In addition to this, the Advocate's prizes have just brought forth a great deal of very powerful undergraduate work by authors as yet unconnected with any paper. For a large part of this enthusiasm in the study of our tongue the English department is distinctly responsible, and all praise must be given to them for their share in bringing this about. We would congratulate the Advocate on its success in this latest venture. It is a thing that has long proved...
...correspondent in a communication published in this issue, comments upon the action taken by the Conference Committee at its last meeting. This dissatisfaction is due to two causes, partly to the inaction of the Conference Committee in the first two meetings, but mainly to an extravagant expectation, on the part of the students, in keeping with neither common sense nor the nature of the Conference...