Word: usual
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Hill called attention, a day or two ago, with reference to these very lectures, to what he termed the "lack of literary curiosity among Harvard men." He had observed, he said, but very little interest from students, in the recent Lanciani lectures - the usual thing in the case of a purely literary subject. It is as much to be deplored as the fact that the English department does not have more scope allowed it, that after all such a comparatively few of the men now in college have this literary curiosity. It is a notorlous fact that a French...
Toboggan slides have been built this winter all over the country. Williams has a college slide. Other colleges seek in tobogganing what they necessarily miss in their usual outdoor sports. But Harvard looks with indifference upon tobogganing and the erection of a slide. Cambridge has a magnificient newly erected toboggan slide; Brookline nightly draws from our number of student tobogganers. But this is all outside of the college. No, skating and tobogganing are not among our traditional list of college sports, so of course cannot possibly find their way into that list. New England exclusiveness must prevail here also...
...late it has become usual to form great generalisations about the origin of art, and the danger of following them in scientific research is that the student will leave the really important things that are at his door unexamined, while he follows out a theory that fletters his vanity and gives unbounded sway to his imagination and to his ingenuity. The safest method therefore is to base our observations and draw our conclusions from the actual historical facts at our disposal...
...room last night. A few of the members of last year's nine who are in college did not appear, although they will try for their old positions on the team and practice regularly in the gymnasium with the others. The exercise will be rather lighter this year than usual, consisting of hand-ball and chest-weights. The following men appeared: Wiestling, '87; H. Coolidge, '87; Holden, '88; Choate, '88; Henshaw, '89; Downer, '89; Morgan, '89; Clark, '89; Young, '89; Bingham, '89; Mumford, '90; Slade, '90; Smith, '90; Bigelow...
...junior class crew will row tomorrow at the usual time...