Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...talk to students in Holden Chapel the other day, gave perhaps what should be a sufficient answer, viz.: the skill to so impress our matter that it shall go for what it is worth and be felt and understood. It is said that this is a very easy thing to do. Well, look about and see how few are able to do it. It is a lamentable fact that if one goes to a lecture, to a convention - or even to church - he is sure to hear a speaker who violates every law of nature in trying to tell...
...lover good-bye, and bids her lover good-bye in the same tone in which she tells him of her love. Miss Mitchell seems to think that piquancy is given to her conversation by a slight rising inflection at the end of every sentence, but such a thing becomes only exasperating when repeated a number of times. There is in the cast a character by the name of Ishmael Ackbar, a Spanish Gypsy. For a Spaniard to be called Ishmael Ackbar is something a little too ridiculous. Ishmael is Hebrew, Ackbar, Turkish. Of course such a play as this could...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The management of the Boat Club has this year been enabled to pay off the debt which has hung over it for so many years, and the old cry of the "crew debt" is forever I hope, a thing of the past. At the beginning of this year, there were bills against the Boat Club amounting to $1973.16. These, as well as our own bills have all been paid, and there remains in the bank a surplus of $160.03. Good luck has been an important factor in accomplishing this. First, the Pudding theatricals were both successful. Then...
...here than we are by the manner in which many of us now map out our work. The results of our elective system are, as we all know, even far beyond expectation, but we should not omit to guard against the evils which it, in common with every good thing, may bring with it a little conservative spirit, may fitly be preached to the liberalism and freedom...
POSITION OF COLLEGE MENin the matter, there is a very erroneous, though popular, impression abroad. College men, certainly Harvard men, do not shun politics as a pestilence, as an unclean thing. They seek for a career which will give them a livelihood; the only offer of politics is uncertainty. It is said that our political affairs are being controlled by the wealthy classes. If that is so, it is because only wealthy men, or men of means, can afford to devote their time to the public service. On the other hand, it is commonly said that the majority of Harvard...