Word: written
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...exercises on the pianos were to take up the whole forenoon, suitable teachers being provided, and the whole superintended by Gilmore. The afternoon was to be occupied in composition, each Junior having to write at least twenty-five operas in the course of the year, the librettos being written by the Sophomores, in addition to their themes. The evenings were to be taken up with the performance of these operas, with the hundred and fifty pianos as an orchestra...
...calling at No. 39 Grays, between the hours of 2 and 3 P. M., and leaving their autographs. The book is to be neatly gotten up. On one cover is to be the stamp of the University, and in one corner, "Harvard '74." On the title-page will be written, "Autographs of the Class...
...pass into as dark a shadow as that which has fallen upon the requisitions in English reading. These entrance examinations might furnish a basis on which to divide the class into several sections, which should differ from each other both as regards the time when themes should first be written, and also as regards their number. These suggestions are made merely to show that the undergraduates take fully as much interest in this subject as the alumni, and feel just as keenly as they the disgrace that comes upon a college when any of its graduates are found...
...College Mercury publishes a poem entitled "Vineta," from the German of Muller, one of the most gracefully written translations we remember to have seen among our exchanges...
...STRIKING want is evident, in both the Cornell papers, of articles written by the students. The last numbers have been nearly entirely made up of editorials, correspondence, and locals; and, while a few articles discussing collegiate subjects have appeared, no purely literary pieces seem to be published. However ably a paper is conducted by the editors, it seems to us to be scarcely an exponent of the literary ability of the College, unless it is partly supported by the students in general...