Word: well
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...student by the University library, as the Boston Library does not think of imposing upon a tramp? If a man desires to steal a library book, he can do so without the use of a bag. An overcoat or a mackintosh will serve the same purpose just as well. In fact I am inclined to believe that such a petty restriction tends to encourage a man to steal...
Everyone in the University will be pleased with the choice of Mr. Deland's successor. B. G. Waters is too well known to all who are interested in football at Harvard to need any words of ours. He is a thorough master of the game, and a hard, enthusiastic worker. The football team could hardly be left in better hands...
Professor J. B. Ames will be toastmaster. Among the speakers will probably be Austen G. Fox '69, chairman of the committee on bar examinations in New York, and one of the best after-dinner speakers in the country; J. B. Warner '69, of Cambridge, a well-known Boston lawyer, and one of the organizers of the club; ex-Mayor Nathan Matthews '75, of Boston, and Judge Robert Grant '73, of Boston. The undergraduate speakers will be W. F. Corliss '94, G. K. Bell '93, and H. C. Lakin '94. Among those who will be present are H. Sherman Hoar...
...Joseph Jefferson, the well-known actor, gave a talk on "Dramatic Discourse," Monday afternoon, under the auspices of the Cliosophic Society. The lecture was intensely interesting and very entertaining with his humor. This lecture was the last of a series of special lectures during the past two weeks which have served, by their interesting character and present importance, to attract the whole university...
Yesterday afternoon the Vesper Service in Appleton Chapel was well attended in spite of the disagreeable weather. Professor Peabody preached, taking his text from the thirteenth chapter of St. John. He said that one should learn humility from the example which Christ set us in washing his disciples' feet, and that we should try to do more to serve others...