Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...open-air concerts by the Glee Club. The amount of pleasure they confer upon the student must far outweigh any little trouble to which the club is put, and yet thus far the club has sung only twice. These concerts have for a long time almost formed a part of college life, and it does not seem as if the club could be justified in so slighting them. It is generally supposed to be a college institution; if it is, more attention ought to be paid to the wishes of the college, and these desires were plainly enough shown...
...nine has certainly failed to make as good a showing as any for some years past. But one more championship game is to be played, and even if we are successful in that, we shall have won but three games out of eight. This result is due in part to the bad luck which has disabled from time to time some of our best players. The one point which has lost so many games is the weakness and lack of judgment which almost every man has shown at the bat. Few men can bat with confidence and steadiness unless they...
...officers and would very seriously affect the feelings of the Commonwealth towards the college, for the people would not stop to discriminate or to remember that the insult was not really the act of the old and time-honored college, but merely a venting of spleen on the part of the narrow-minded and prejudiced men who, unfortunately, chance for the moment to represent her. [Wendell Phillips...
...regret very much," Governor Butler is reported as saying, "this political action on the part of the college, because I fear it may tend to impair its usefulness, for it is quite possible that the people of the Commonwealth may hereafter remember it to the disadvantage of the college and come to the conclusion to divorce the college and the State as our fathers divorced the church and State, and may inquire if there is any reason why the property of that institution shall be exempted from taxataxation, which is so burdensome upon us, while they use the alms...
...thirty years ensuing gave to it, in various cities of New England, the best vigor of his life. . . . In 1857 he was made Professor of Ecclesiastical History in Harvard University, and held this chair until his transfer to that of German Literature in 1872. This was the most active part of his literary life, during which he wrote many books besides a number of remarkable magazine articles. The best known of his works are his "Prose Writers of Germany," his "Primaeval World of Hebrew. Tradition," and his "Reason in Religion." He has published many translations from the German...