Word: plain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Plain Facts about the Library," Professor W. C. Lane '81, elaborates on four present needs of the College Library, additional shelf room for books, study rooms for professor and advanced students, increased space for administration, and a better reading room. He says: "It is a singular fact that, at a time when the building of libraries has become a favorite form of public benefaction, Harvard has not received any great gift for a library building. It is useless to expect an ample equipment and a generous building from any other source." In summarizing the requirements, Professor Lane puts beauty first...
...call attention to in your columns if I may have space. The management has evidently considered that men who work or sweat for Harvard are entitled to receive favors: for that they are doing more than giving football players good seats for their families or intimate friends is painfully plain to all of us. But in acting up to this belief the management has either discriminated most unfairly,--or has been guilty of a carelessness which is no less unfair. For while some prominent individuals have received 80 tickets and over in advance of the sale, others, almost as prominent...
...nine, and on the University baseball team for three years. He was a member of the Institute of 1770, and of the Hasty Pudding Club. The funeral will be on Saturday, Sept. 30, at eleven o'clock, from his late residence, Forest Hills street, corner of Glen road, Jamaica Plain...
Bartlett Harding Hayes '98, of Jamaica Plain, pitcher. He prepared at Roxbury Latin School, where he pitched. He has also played on the College nine and on his class team. Age 22, height 5 ft. 10 in., weight...
...said: The figure of speech is plain and pungent. Salt is savary, purifying, preservative. Christ was not paying compliments to his disciples. He was giving a clear and powerful call to duty. Were they to make their influence felt on earth for good? Men of privilege without power are waste material. Men of enlightenment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish. Men of intellectual and moral and religious culture who are not active for good in society are not worth what it costs to produce and keep them. They were meant to be the salt of the earth...