Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Institute grounds, Huntington Avenue, work has been begun for the Pompeiian Amphitheatre, to be erected for the especial use of Pain, the great London pyrotechnist, who intends giving a series of magnificent entertainments illustrating the Destruction of Pompeii...
...another experience two years ago of the abuse of the reserved book system. When wishing to use a text of the "Nibelunger Lied," I found that some instructor had put all the texts on the reserved list. It seems to me only fair that, where several copies of a work are in the Library, one at least should be kept in circulation. Instructors are too apt to reserve indiscriminately everything bearing on their subject, and thus to prevent readers who do not happen to take their courses from getting as much benefit from the Library as they have a right...
...aspect which is a strong argument for the change. It has become the custom of all the college clubs of a nature at all athletic, to adopt both the 'varsity blazer and cap. This has made the blazers so numerous as to take them from their exclusive use by the nine and crew, and make them only the distinguishing feature of any Harvard athletic organization. This is but the result of a gradual and very rational development, and should be welcomed by every Harvard man as a just extension of his own privileges. The next and final step...
...begun to turn their attention to the needs of the times, education, foreign missions, prison reforms and temperance instead of wrangling over creeds and opinions. So we, too, must apply our beliefs to the affairs of life, for only by so doing can we make them and ourselves of use in the world...
Unfortunately this ideal university is so far away in the future that it is possible that no one now living will ever make use of its advantages or even witness its establishment...