Word: talents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...After the war, the great colleges advanced with a step which kept pace with the highest progress of the age. Yale's new president. with his youth, experience, administrative talent and popularity, became the responsible manager of all departments and the sole administrator of the young republic...
...enough importance to accept. Trips are taken to such places as Malen and Medford, while places like New York and Philadelphia are wholly neglected. Languor and indifference are the prevailing points in our musical organizations. The recent concert of the Pierian Sodality at Sanders showed the presence of talent and ability in this line. Although we cannot dispense with these local concerts, we desire to see Harvard's name and influence extended by the efforts of her musical societies. We advocate a healthful activity in musical as well as aesthetic affairs...
...lines a situation is very forcibly drawn. There is not a sentence nor a word too much; the movement of the story shows great vigor. "An Automaton" is a very remarkable study and deserves a careful perusal and thoughtful consideration. It is with no mean descriptive talent that the author has succeeded in tracing the various steps in the dulling of the college man's sensibilities. What is implied-that which one can read between the lines is often an index to the value of a piece of writing. In this sketch any one whose experience...
...scene is clearly brought before the reader's eyes. There is a reality in those waves tossing and tumbling which suggests a wonderful power of description in the writer. An admirable poem on Fate follows this and shows a depth of thought seldom exhibited in college poetry. "Unappreciated Talent" is a Seri-comic story written in a very bright vein and serves to lighten up the solemnity which the preceding articles give the paper...
...whistler. Surely out of twelve hundred students, there should be more than two who consider themselves capable of filling the position. If the difficult solos that resound nightly through the entries, can be taken as evidence, we should feel justisfied in saying that there is plenty of talent in college though, perhaps, as yet uncultivated. Men who were here two years ago will remember what an addition to the glees Mr. Cary's whistling made. The Glee Club suffered greatly from his loss last year, and it is in the desire to fill his place that the club has issued...