Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...each recurring examination period, an abuse which has long existed becomes especially irritating. Time after time we have censured the carelessness of some students with regard to their conduct in the library. Loud talk and noisy shuffling has become with some men a positive habit. Within the last two days, certain students have been the cause of great annoyance to the readers by their careless method of work. This subject is discussed and censured twice a year regularly, but each time the abuse is revived. Such a practice cannot be too severely rebuked. The selfishness displayed is peculiarly irritating...
...ready to attack again an abuse which forms at this period of the year one of our regular subjects for disquisition - playing musical instruments out of hours. But as time seems to increase the annoyance, time also has added fuel to our wrath. The dulcet strains of the oboe and the nerveless screech of the violin have become simply maddening when they interrupt the culminating work of the year. The walls seem only to increase and re-echo the noise. We absolutely demand in behalf of suffering humanity, that the abuse be stopped...
...prescribed work in English of the first year, and are looking forward to their electives. No college in the United States offers so many advantages in this department as Harvard does. In the first place, there are seven different courses for the study of the literature alone, covering periods in the English world of letters from the time of the earliest Anglo-Saxon writers down to the present day. The courses are so arranged that one may begin at whatever period he likes and study the growth of literature historically. Prof. Child has five courses...
...capable instructors, Dr. Royce, which has never received due notice in our columns. We refer to his book entitled "California," a careful account of the author's mother state, which gives in short space a very clear and adequate idea of the history of California during the most interesting period of its growth, the years from 1846 to 1856. Dr. Royce first gives an outline of the earlier history of the state, and then tells of the American as its conqueror, and how his conquest was completed and supplemented in the ensuing struggle for good government and order. The last...
...Advocate, which was held last evening, was an event which will long be remembered in the history of Harvard journalism. The large number present evidenced the interest which is still felt in the oldest Harvard paper. It is seldom that a college paper is vouchsafed so long a period of activity, and never, perhaps, has any college paper enjoyed such pronounced success throughout its existence as the Advocate. Many of the most prominent men in college during past years have been members of its board; and for nearly a generation the paper has steadily influenced college thought by the wisdom...