Word: thought
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Freshman Glee Club met in Robert's Hall yesterday afternoon and elected officers for the organization. It was decided that the office of president be made temporary until the first week in January. Mr. S. Howell was elected president, and Mr. J. Hubbard secretary and treasurer. It was thought best to defer the choosing of a leader until a more thorough organization was effected. At the beginning of the year the outlook for a good club was rather poor, but a large number of new men have presented themselves as candidates, and it is thought from this number, together with...
...standpoint the concert was, as usual, delightful. The coloring, rhythm, and polish displayed by the orchestra were faultless. The first number on the programme was Schubert's overture in E minor, a new work to Cambridge people. The work is not particularly interesting as it lacks in orginality of thought and expression. Even Schubert's great melodic power seems wanting in this piece...
Last spring a movement was started by undergraduates of Harvard College to form an interscholastic football association. In former years the various Boston schools had football teams, but they were usually of no account, and it was thought that such an association would bring out many more football men, and that the Boston schools would in time rival with Andover and Exeter in supplying material to Harvard elevens...
...outset, a man may safely take those which the whole world has decisively stamped as the best. These would be Homer, Virgil, aeschylus, and Sophocles and. beyond all doubt, Aristophanes; Lucre tires, and Plato. In the middle ages, the Divine Comedy which has most perfectly expressed their thought and their emotions; the prelude to this, Dante's Vita Nuova; the Life of St. Louis, by Joinville, the Romance of the Cid, and the Arthurian Romances. In later times the number of names really great is considerable. One might give Chaucer, the freshest and most springlike of all poets; Spenser (though...
...beginning of the year 1887-8 had about $300 in the bank; at the end of the year the balance in the bank was about $8. This decrease seems not to be due to extravagance or to a reduced income, but to a change of policy. The management thought best to sent more representative to athletic contests, believing that they would gain experience which would be valuable to them in the future. In this way the expenses this year are larger than in former years, and the money on hand necessarily less...