Word: use
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...strenuous season of football, the second a sensible protest against the idea "that Harvard had lost like gentlemen long enough," the third in advocacy of debating. The verse of the number includes a rollicking description of "The Maverick," who is evidently a free lance of the West, a use of the Word new to me, but a happy one, whether common or the author's invention; "Sistiana," honest and ambitions lines after reading "The Romaunt of the Rose," and "Autumn Wind," in which are some good lines...
...Jones '62" the author ingeniously uses the machinery of the old Christmas story as made famous by Dickens; the scene is Class Day and the mysterious visitants are Jones and Smith of '62, wraiths who return for the edification of Wolcott and Randolph, who have deserted the bath-tubs of the Gold Coast for the traditions of Holworthy. The story is well told, save that the writer has not learned the lesson of literary temperance in keeping for another occasion lines undoubtedly clever but out of place in their present use. Jones is made to win the Victoria Cross...
...Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, on Monday, December 17, at 8 I'll, by Professor F. G. Peabody '69. The subject for the year, the first of the series, of four subjects prescribed in 1750 by the founder, Judge Paul Dudley, will be "The proving, explaining, and proper use and improvement of the principle of natural religion, as it is commonly called and understood by divines and learned...
...series of Sunday afternoon gatherings, such as those which were started last year, will be held tomorrow afternoon in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House. The building will be open from 3 to 6 o'clock, and books from the Social Service library and magazines will be available for use during the afternoon...
...desire of the Phillips Brooks House Association is to make the house serviceable to men who spend Sundays in Cambridge. Men in all classes and departments of the University, whether members of any of the Brooks House societies or not, are invited to make use of the house, and are at liberty to come in at any time during the afternoon...