Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Calendar, which we publish this morning, contains many attractive features. Greatest interest is felt in the Tuesday lectures on professions, and the announcement that next Tuesday Dr. Edes, is to speak on Medicine will be welcomed. But the reader's enthusiasm is rather dampened when he finds that he has once more to crowd himself into Sever 11. We think it unfortunate that the Natural History Society and Dr. Farnham are to tug with each other for audiences, but suppose that the contest was not to be avoided. With the various seminars and readings the Symphony Concert and the lecture...
...curiosity which leads the Yale man to study the statistics of the freshman classes of the last twenty years is equally sad in its results, foreboding fewer students in future rather than more...
...outbreak of the rebellion a guard for the Arsenal was organized, composed of Harvard students. They marched to the enlivening music of fife and drum, drilled, and stood guard until the matter got to be looked upon as an opportunity for having a good time rather than as a serious and important duty, when their further services were declared to be unnecessary. Later on many regular troops were equipped here with arms and ammunition, and in 1864, at the time when the "Merrimac" was creating such havoc in the neighborhood of Norfolk, Governor Andrew had an addition...
...them back hard enough, and gets a weak finish. No. 6 draws his oar in on too high a level, and does not finish hard enough. He does not swing straight, and goes back too far. No. 5 does not use his legs hard enough, and he is rather slow with his shoulders. He has no very marked faults and his great trouble is a lack of power and life in his stroke. No. 4 catches too hard, and then jerks his oar into his body instead of bringing it in with a steady pull. He is very slow...
...more difficult task than a novel, - and it is short stories our college papers demand as a rule. The Monthly has seen this defect, and on account of its appearing at intervals of a month, has been able to present its readers with uniformly good stories, albeit rather gloomy at times. Now, in our humble opinion, translations like Mr. Santayana's "May Night," and Mr. Mitchell's "Little Dauphin," are worth twice to the college literary world what a namby pamby love story, or a wild medley of lunacy and brain fever would...