Word: willes
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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THE annual Commencement dinner will take place on the 25th of the present month. Colonel John D. Washburn, of Worcester, has been chosen Chief Marshal for the occasion. E. Rockwood Hoar, the President of the Association of Alumni, will preside at the dinner, and Rev. Charles E. Grinnell, of Charlestown...
The first fact about college poetry which strikes one is that there is a great deal too much of it. The maxim "Write nothing in verse that can be written in prose" is entirely disregarded, or rather inverted. The would-be poet, thinking that passable poetry is to be preferred...
It is easy to see that the "theologians," as they are derisively called, are having a very hard time of it. The common people are presuming enough to inspect, and perhaps reject, the doctrines which are zealously laid before them, in much the same way that they have sometimes been...
It has been determined, therefore, to try the experiment next year of having a course in German in which the "classic" writers and composition shall have no place, and in which the sole aim shall be to familiarize those who take it with the general style of modern German writers...
We assert then, what is trite enough, that it is not for our Freshmen to be over generous with what does not belong to them, Harvard's aquatic reputation, but to see that all the arrangements are equitable as well to Harvard as to Yale. Under these circumstances, which the...