Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...College songs are always favorably received, and it is a pity that more of them are not sung. Messrs. Butler and Denton sang solos which were well applauded, and Mr. Livingood rendered the "Yaller Gal" with great effect...
...Pierian Sodality kept up to their usual standard, and showed a good deal of practice and care in the execution of their pieces. Fesca's trio for piano, violin, and violoncello was well rendered by Messrs. Dean, Towne, and Finck, respectively. Rossini's Fantaisie pour Clarionet was also received with favor...
However, there is an entirely different kind of fault-finding, which, though often not less ridiculous than the former, merits more attention. These ebullitions of college discontent, remarkable chiefly for their number, find vent in the college papers; hence, in order better to judge of them, it might be well to examine a recent copy of the Advocate...
...first article censures the actions of some professors with regard to voluntary recitations, and ends with the statement: "In some courses voluntary recitations are now simply a farce." I can hardly believe that a calm examination of the facts would bear out this assertion, and it would be well to remember that in all probability the Faculty did not make the Senior recitations voluntary in order to render Senior year a comfortable "loaf...
...fifth is on that well-worn subject, Memorial Hall, and lays considerable stress on the fact of eight barrels of meat "in an advanced state of de-co position" having been seen hoisted from the cellar, and probably thrown away. Taking into account the frequent changes in the weather, and the large amount of meat consumed at Memorial Hall, this fact does not necessarily show any mismanagement or useless waste. In a quasi-supplement to this article, a reasonable statement, indirectly from Mr. Farmer, is scoffed at, and treated with many exclamation-marks...