Word: wideness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Will you allow me to call attention to a course of lectures which a Harvard graduate is now delivering at the Hawthorne Rooms? The subject, "Russian Literature," is one which at present attracts wide interest among cultivated persons, and the fact that the lecturer, Mr. Ivan Panin, is himself a Russian, adds to the value of the lectures. It is certainly worthy of attention that we have here an opportunity of knowing what a Russian, educated at Harvard, and able to compare the works of his countrymen with those of Western Europeans and Americans, puts upon Puschkin...
...Christ Church amid the trees. It is full of the beauful air of repose which has endeared Gray's "Elegy" to the world. At the left of the picture is a separate scrap showing the sunny vine- covered side of Massachusetts Hall. "Cambridge on the Charles" is a wide view across the river marshes of the trees and spires of the town. The stream winds on unrippled in the sun and the drowsy shade is massed densely in the distance, while the square shoulders of Memorial Hall push up into the sky on the right. Low in the middle distance...
...college building which ex-Governor Leland Stanford is erecting in California is 600 feet long and 200 feet wide. It is in the form of a hollow square with a cloister 1,700 feet long. It is one story high and is designed after the style of the old Spanish missions which are among the most beautiful pieces of architecture in America...
...secure some new editors for the paper. The class of '89 has still one vacancy on the board and the sophomore class still lacks two representatives while there is room for four freshmen. The main requisitions for election to the paper consist in a good style of writing, a wide-awake eye for the news about college, and above all a firm determination to do conscientious work...
...would, I am sure, avail themselves of this exhilarating autumn weather did they know of the delightful walks near here. Good views of the country may be had from Tufts College and Corey's Hill, either of which places is not over three miles distant. Middlesex Fells is a wide tract of woodland some distance beyond Tufts. Concord, Lexington and Walden can be easily reached on foot in a day, and a return be made in the afternoon by rail. All the roads are historical, and freshmen, whether engaged in athletics or not, can do no better than to make...