Word: presentability
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...word of exhortation to ball-players in Harvard may not be out of place here. The Nine is supposed, and surely ought, to be composed of the nine best players in the University. Is the Nine, as it stands at present, thus made up; or are there some men keeping themselves in the background, whose services might be of great benefit? If there be any of this latter class, we shall surely hope to see them, as soon as Jarvis Field is free from snow, working for the place which their merits should secure them...
...MEETING of the H. U. B. C. was held Tuesday evening last, and considerable business was transacted. It was decided that the class races should be held on Saturday, May 31, hour of the day not set. The Executive Committee considered the proposed plan of presenting the boat-house to the College. The Corporation will vote under what conditions they will receive it. Were it not for the loss which the College suffered by the recent fire, it would probably be received with its present indebtedness; but, as matters now are, this can hardly be hoped for. The original cost...
...ways, and even by some who are familiar with them, I am aware. However, if the considerations for and against such a course are weighed, a large balance, I think, will be found in favor of it. Those who are opposed to it for the most part regard only present effects, the unpleasantness which the one to whom the system is applied may at first experience, and do not analyze the results to ascertain whether they are good...
Durer's engraving of St. Jerome is surprisingly well reproduced, and does very great credit to the publisher's experts. The clearness of the impression is amazing. The table at which St. Jerome is reading recalls some of Eastlake's remarks about the absurdity of those in use at present. Durer evidently was not particularly occupied with St. Jerome as a saint; he merely wished to represent an old man absorbed in study, and took far more delight in giving in firm, strong lines all the details of a homely interior. The flood of light warms one's very heart...
...anything genuine, who derive their intellectual nourishment almost exclusively from trashy literature. Among these our writer, provided his production gains publicity, is welcome. But as this uncultivated class is not supposed to exist in the "headquarters" of refinement and intelligence, these remarks apply only in part to those whose present literary efforts are confined to our college journals. Upon the hypothesis, then, that Harvard men are shrewd enough to distinguish a good joke from a bad one, and too refined to relish vulgarity, the conclusion is this, that he cannot be a popular writer who, for the sake...