Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...well-known fact that the apparatus in our old gymnasium is not what it should be, not what we should expect to find in a well-regulated gymnasium, and the idea of again making use of these old-fashioned fixings is absurd. We want better, and if better is not given us we may as well continue to use our old gymnasium with all its inconveniences...
...hours. Ah! would that some kind benefactor of our College might be as generous to us! Perhaps such innocent pleasures would wean us away from the gross immorality and vice which prevail among us! But stay! The Tablet further says; "Its chief value does not consist in its ordinary use as a means of displaying pictures." Perhaps that rather alters the case...
...shops, or any one who has glanced at the advertisements that make up, by far, the largest part of the Boston papers, must have been struck with the popularity and the prevalence of the word "Harvard" as a trade-mark-and advertising sign. The amusing circumstance connected with this use of the word is the entire want of connection between the thing advertised and the college for which it is named...
...appellation is lost. To enumerate all the articles of merchandise which are shipped to "all parts of the Union" bearing the name of Harvard would tax the reader's patience. The Harvard Book-rack, the Harvard Ulster, and the Harvard Memorial Hall Cigarette will suggest other articles of use and consumption...
...special subject; by combining they could give us a full course of lectures which would be both varied, interesting, and profitable. One society, we understand, has already taken some steps in this matter, and the other two are disposed to look favorably upon it. If the Faculty hesitate to use their independent powers towards giving us such a course of lectures, they may, at least, be willing to heartily aid the students in their efforts...