Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...distance of the Stadium from the Yard. The first of these objections is more seeming than real for the Statue exercises were a make-shift from the old exercises, and are but six years old, having been started by the class of '98. The second objection may seem more serious to some, but when one considers the ease and readiness with which fellows march to the games it does not appear so objectionable...
...page 207?) The verses on "The Prosaic Age," may be taken as an editorial "Don't" for poetical candidates. The Misogynist's metrical will seems to have some broken cogs. "The Man who Comes up from the Crowed," is by a more experienced hand, and is in a more serious vein. The running satire on college men and things is sometimes rather lacking in point; but is at least not barbed with malice. All in all, the 1904 board has set a good mark for its successor...
...telegram was received yesterday from Mr. J. H. Hyde '98, of New York, stating that M. Leroy-Beaulieu, owing to the very serious illness of his daughter, has not sailed for this country and will not give the Cercle Francais lectures this year, as announced...
...little angry to think that it was all done or ever will be done to amuse those who had tickets. For that reason we do not believe that the argument that the Stadium would allow us a greater number of spectators will endear itself to those who have any serious regard for Class Day and there are many reasons why a change in the old institutions will offend, not only the graduates who come back here in anticipation of old scenes and old associations, but also the men who will deserve to enjoy the same scenes and associations...
...January number of the Harvard Monthly is of the kind which is pleasant to remember. Whoever has kept files of this only undergraduate publication which pretends to serious literary purpose must have grown aware of how well the volumes hold their own. The pages are not apt to be instantly brilliant; but in many ways they prove to have a quality not quite ephemeral...