Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...architects of the new Gymnasium are aiming to make it as complete as possible, and with that end in view have expressed themselves willing to receive suggestions from the students. It is to be hoped that a similar spirit will actuate the architects of our mental gymnasium, - the new hall for recitation and lecture rooms. That these rooms will be properly heated and ventilated, after all that has been said on the subject, we may reasonably expect. There are other points, however, that may be overlooked by those who have not profited by bitter experience. The windows, for instance...
...dazzling sunbeams may be seen to advantage in U. 2. There on a bright morning the different portions of a class are divided from each other and from the instructor by bands of sunlight and zones of darkness. Moreover, through the windows right before us we have a full view of Thayer or Weld, as the case may be, so curiously and fantastically distorted by the peculiar quality of glass used at Harvard as irresistibly to distract the attention of our imaginative and speculative mind. As the preservation of our eyesight ought to be one of the chief objects attended...
...came out in the horse-car, I thought over this conversation, and especially over the Senior's Parthian shot. I wondered whether I had a much higher purpose in view than he confessed to, and if not, whether I should ever become so blase in regard to college life. It puzzled me most, however, to find out whether "quite a respectable portion" of the class would really be rather glad than otherwise to take their sheep-skins and walk away. I am not sure of the answer yet, but am still wondering...
...established reputation, William Tudor founded the "North American Review." During its first years the Review, notwithstanding the fact that it gave nothing for its contributions, barely paid expenses; and never before the present year has it been a paying investment. But, however unsuccessful from a business point of view the Review may have been, its pages have ever exhibited the highest scholarship this country possessed, and its list of contributors includes the name of almost every American writer who has attained any enduring distinction...
AFTER the mongrel day which '77 endured last year, and in view of recent sinister criticism of the "new regime," it behooves the present Senior class practically to demonstrate next June that its class spirit has not been destroyed by the elective system, and that it is willing to unite all its forces in getting up a joyous Class...