Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard is not able to undertake this charge under the present circumstances, the managers desire that their school shall be no additional burden. To bring about this result and to further the general interests of the organization, the friends of female education are called upon for assistance in the shape of money...
...coming meeting of the Inter-Collegiate Base-Ball Association will be one of especial importance, as on its decision will depend the longer continuance of the association in its present shape. A new aspect is put upon affairs by the announcement that Amherst will under no circumstances remain in the association after the present year. Whether this will have any influence on the action of the convention remains to be seen. It looks now as if it would make Dartmouth's hold on her present position even more uncertain than at present, for now that Amherst is no longer...
...subject of remark that students seldom appreciate the advantages offered to them in the shape of lectures and concerts. This is especially the case with the series of chamber concerts that are being given in Sever Hall. The fourth one of the series to be given this evening presents an unusually fine programme, and one that calls for a large attendance. We hope that the students will not allow these concerts, which have been such an artistic success, to fail from a financial point of view...
...forward to with so much interest by the scientific world. The first number fully comes up to all expectations, both as regards typography and matter. The journal has a very artistic heading designed by Mr. C. H. Moore of Harvard, and is well printed on excellent paper, of convenient shape and size. Among the longer articles we notice contributions by Prof. Asa Gray, Mr. E. H. Hall and Samuel Kneeland. A very interesting letter on a "Singular Meteoric Phenomenon," witnessed from the deck of the Alaska, is illustrated by excellent diagrams. One of the most valuable features of the journal...
...more experienced "foreign cousins." The stamp of the early doctrines gained in their university life is very manifest in the life work of many an illustrious statesman or literrateur, who passed his college years in some intellectual centre, such as Oxford or Heidelberg. Can we sincerely say that men shape their modes of thought in any lasting form while at Harvard? I doubt if traces of a student's four years' training are ever distinct enough to be discovered ten years after he leaves Cambridge. The man who possesses the most original mind by nature receives none of those impulses...