Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject of college expenses has been much debated lately. At our commencement dinner a year ago our chairman insisted that the ideal of the University should be plain living and high thinking. And certainly there is apt to be something vulgar, as well as vicious, in the man of books who turns away from winning intellectual wealth and indulges in tawdry extravagance. Yet every friend of Harvard is obliged to acknowledge with shame that the loose spender has a lodging in our yard...
...duty of the officers to be elected on Friday is therefore plain to everyone. As to the recognized representative committee of students, they should at once choose and elect a body, consisting of three graduates, thoroughly converstant with rowing principles and crew management. These three men, together with the outgoing captain and incoming captain, should have absolute control of Harvard boating interests-university crew and class crews. To this executive committee of five members the crews should look for their instructions. Captains would then be relieved of the dread of unpopularity if they made mistakes, and would not become heroes...
...choice which the individual must make be comes modified and motivated by the introduction of new fields that are opened to him. A recognition of this fact is forced on every man as he sits down to make out his electives for the ensuing year. Moreover it is plain that with the difficulty of the choice, the responsibility increases and it becomes more necessary to weigh the pros and cons in each decision. There can be no doubt that it is just here that the enlargement of the elective pamphlet it apt to bring about the best results. Behind...
...because so great a part of the book is written in a narrative form, also, that there is only now and then occasion for anything more than the plain, straightforward, vigorous style than counts for so much in the admirableness of the whole work; but when there is occasion for a dramatic scene, it is always drawn with power and truth and (notwithstanding the appearance sometimes of gracefulness sacrificed for strength) secundum artem. In fact, the novel is sterling throughout. It is good in plot and workmanship, and in the portrayal and conception of character; it is natural and lifelike...
Recently increased stock of spring and summer neckwear - including Ottoman silks, brocade pique and plain and fancy pique. Prices raging frm 20c. to 80c. Two grades of fine full-dress shirts constantly in stock. Also, same to order from samples (with embroidered and pique besoms...