Word: ups
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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The College authorities have given up the idea of recasting the bell on Harvard Hall, and a new one will be purchased which will possibly be hung during the Christmas Recess.
A large audience listened yesterday afternoon to Mr. Copeland's lecture on Dickens. He contrasted Dickens to Fielding and Thackeray, and compared him with Smollet. He also spoke of Dickens' individual qualities, and took up in some detail the characteristics of Mrs. Gamp, the Micawbers, Dick Swiveller and Captain Cuttle...
The most noticeable fault was the over-prominent, strained and labored acting. There were many groupings of useless characters on the stage, and a tendency towards long and wearing some soliloquies. The last two acts showed much skill in construction, and went off fairly smoothly. The scene chosen for all...
May I call attention through your columns to a danger attending the unrestricted nominating of Class Day officers which Nineteen Hundred is not taking sufficient account of? I refer to the danger that the best men may be defeated at the election of the votes of the class have to...
The virtue of the otherwise inexcusable "club state" which enabled it to hold its own for so long was its intelligence in matters of this sort. Its trial elections weeded out in advance all wasteful short sighted nominations. But now that the clubs have given up their slate the responsibility...