Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last night, with all the rain, might be called by many an extremely appropriate night for temperance addresses; and those who thought that the rain would have no effect upon the size of the audience were in slight error, for the audience in Sanders last evening was quite large, and spoke well for the popularity of the speakers...
There is a need of some means of publishing in permanent form "the best literary work of the college," and of having here at Harvard some paper which shall "represent within its pages the strongest and soberest under-graduate thought." This can be done in one of two ways; either by a new Literary Monthly, or by the "Advocate," which proposes to add to its size next year, and to do exactly, in quality and in quantity, the work which would be done by a Literary Monthly. Not more than one paper whose aim is to represent the best literary...
...circumscribed and limited one. With all the merits of the Lampoon, the Advocate and the CRIMSON, none of these exist solely with the aim of putting in attractive and permanent form the best literary work of the college, nor of representing within its pages the strongest and soberest undergraduate thought. It is evident, also, that the efforts put forth of late by the instructors in English, coupled with a growing sense of the importance of the study, have succeeded in making the welfare of the English department one of the very greatest interest to every student. Only of recent years...
...Club, the Historical Club, the Philosophical Club, and the various other organizations of the college, as well as in the graduate schools, we believe that work is being done which, if written in clear and good form, is well worth publication. Our aim will be to represent the best thought of the university, as well as the best purely literary work. It may be well to add that while the Literary Monthly is founded primarily for undergraduates, we shall endeavor to publish in each issue an article by a professor or by some graduate of note. By this plan...
While on his Easter vacation, your correspondent visited the Columbia gymnasium to ascertain some facts about the crews. Accompanied by a friend who acted as guide, he entered the gymnasium, which is pleasantly located in a cellar in the Grammar School. But-I hear you say-we thought all Columbia was a grammar school. No, you are mistaken; there is a nice little college, without any dormitories, around the corner, a nice little athletic field at Mott Haven, and a nice little boat-house on the Harlem; and to end up comfortably, here we are in a real nice little...