Word: various
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Amherst Student says that the finances of the various college organizations there are in a deplorable condition. Large sums of money appear to have been subscribed, but when the time for payment came, the subscribers were unable to keep their promises. The Student very sensibly requests that no one subscribe more than he is able to pay, and that payment be made as soon as possible...
...separates them from the mass. It is the result of uniformity of occupation and desires, and is developed by internal laws, proceeding not from the composition of the editorial staff of the Nation, but from the exigencies of college life. I need not stop to point out the various causes that tend to produce the flippant tone among students which has struck our author. It is but the cant of our profession, and is only skin-deep. The curious might go on to analyze it into the effect of sudden accession of liberty upon the "youthful mind," the opportunities...
...rubs its sleepy eyes, stirs its sluggish blood, and sends eleven men to kick all Canada into the ocean. If enthusiasm is to be judged by the projects started, the Athletic Association and the new club system will both serve to point a significant moral, and the class and various small societies born in the last four years testify to little stagnation in the social circulation...
...McPherson & Co., and is the first purely mosaic stained glass window ever erected in this country. By mosaic stained-glass window we mean one wherein all the effect of light and shade is obtained, not by the use of paint, but by the sole use of various colored glasses so disposed that the effect is similar to most elegant mosaic work...
...time for the election of men to Class and Class-Day offices is now near at hand, and if one can judge from present indications, the election will be harmonious, and calculated to unite the various elements of the class, as well as to enhance the honor of the choice to those who shall be elected. But it is time that the Senior Class of Harvard should cast off those restraints on open elections which have hitherto existed, and which have so often divided rather than united the class interests at the very time when unanimity of action was most...