Word: presentism
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...students playing on the violin, flute, or clarionet desirous of joining the Pierian Sodality are invited to present themselves for examination at the rooms of the Sodality, in Holyoke House, on Tuesday, 28th inst., at 7 P. M. Any information regarding the music can be obtained at No. 13 Hollis or 3 Holyoke...
...night watchman, Mr. Cheney, is to resign at the end of the present month the office he has so long and creditably filled, and the College will employ no nocturnal guardian in future...
...meeting was then adjourned. The outlook of the Club was never brighter, and we trust it may receive the co-operation of all interested in Harvard, to enable it to maintain its present good condition...
...evenings give ample opportunity for that deep thought or light fancy suggested by our contact with the master minds of all ages in science or letters. When one thinks of the opportunities for culture here possessed, he cannot but wonder at the insignificant results attained by most men. The present Freshman Class have an unequalled opportunity for instituting a new order of things in this respect, since they have not to follow blindly in the path of absurd and frivolous precedent...
...strong enough to endure the battle of life, by training it like the young vine, shielding it from every temptation and every danger. When temptation and danger do come in early manhood, sudden and powerful as they will, self-reliance and a knowledge of good and evil must be present or the structure, so carefully reared, falls. I cannot blame the man who breaks anti-tobacco and anti-spirit pledges, made by proxy when he was four or five years old. And for the disgust in which good and sacred things may be held, from having been, in a manner...