Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Fact.MR. WETHERBEE, '78, met with quite a serious accident in the Foot-Ball match on Tuesday afternoon. One of the opposite side ran against him, he was thrown down, and his collar-bone was fractured. The bone has been set, and we understand that he is now in quite a comfortable condition...
...there is scarcely a line which does not seem to be filled with the natural outburst of a strong, enduring heart, the home of noble thoughts. We are sorry that the printer's work has been so badly done, for the numerous errors in that respect are sometimes serious obstacles to the pleasure of reading. The second edition should be more carefully prepared...
...Harvard College was prepared to make as serious a move again, when the exigencies of the country really needed it; but, meanwhile, meant to stay where she was, maintaining her own native and self-created policy, in spite of all the cries for novelty and so-called improvement from that part of the community which favored the brand-new institutions of the day, grinding out A. B.'s by patent machinery. They might leave out Harvard College in the cold if they chose, and stigmatize her studies, her habits, her buildings, her societies, as old-fashioned. Sooner or later they...
That a course in New Philosophy would take advantage of what enthusiasm there is here, and so utilize it that it should increase rather than, as now, decrease, cannot be a matter of serious doubt...
...time we thought that letter quite a creditable effort. All future attempts of the kind will be marked "Not serious...