Word: styling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harvard College have thus far failed in doing, for he has created among his own students an ardent love for the study of Belles-Lettres." Has our Faculty failed in awakening an interest in literature in this College? Is it a fact that the cultivation of a good style and of taste in letters is not now and never was an aim of Harvard men? I think that on reflection we shall find the statement in Scribner's not only incorrect but without foundation...
...then a few remarks on college prayers; after which we might have a few lines of poetry on "My Love," or "The Fading Daisy," - for poetry is allowed a license in this matter that makes me think the author must be a poet (a conclusion in which the rambling style of the article further confirms me). One would think, by the by, that the poetry might be satisfactorily limited to the flowers that grew in the Yard, the goodies, and other kindred subjects. But after this breathing-place, we shall come again to an arid waste on the subject...
...University Nine voted on Monday to change the present style of their uniform by substituting knickerbockers and crimson stockings for long trousers. Some objection was made to discarding a uniform so long worn by the Nine, but the greater convenience of the stockings was considered a sufficient reason for making the change. The original gray cloth with trimmings of the College color will still be used...
...coarse food, such as baked beans or inferior joints of meat, which is easily digested by a man who works hard in the open air, will not nourish the more delicate organs of a man who is chiefly occupied in brain-work, and that the latter needs a higher style of living. Perhaps I can make my objections clearer by analyzing the effect which Memorial Hall fare has on me. I do not think that the amount of studying which I do is too much; I am always regular in my exercise, and a portion of every day is spent...
...poorly on 't for style...