Word: deal
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Freshman Elections.THE Freshman Class held a meeting in the upper hall of Massachusetts, Tuesday afternoon, to elect officers for the coming season. A good deal of interest in the result was shown; aroused partly by the editorial in the last number of the Advocate. However, no resignations were necessary, as the present officers were elected to serve only till Christmas...
...Maguinnis deserves much credit for his rendering of Launcelot Gobbo. The mounting of the play was perhaps a little better than usual, and quite outshone the venerable scenery that has done duty at the Boston Theatre as long as any one can remember, and probably a good deal longer. The performance was generally very pleasant, and we have no doubt that the company will acquit themselves as well during the rest of Mr. Booth's engagement...
...efforts to avoid the spread-eagle know-little-and-talk-a-great-deal style of oratory in favor with our average American stump-speaker, we have touched the other extreme, and have laid ourselves open to a kind of censure which such articles as that on "The Repressive Influence of Harvard" may be supposed to represent. When one of our own professors publicly acknowledges that there is more than a grain of truth in the remark of an outsider to the effect that a Harvard graduate, however much he may know, can say but a few sentences on any subject...
...another College year. No matter how little any of us think of the past eight months, we all feel how little has been accomplished of what, according to our plans and wishes, was to be done. How many pleasant fellows there are that we intended to see a good deal of, that we have met but once or twice; how many books, which we have been told we must read, have laid collecting dust on our tables and fines in the library,-if we have even gone so far as to take them out; how many articles that were...
...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 to good prose, expends his energies in putting his thoughts into verse, with more or less regard for metre, forgetting that really good prose is seldom written, and that poetry of a certain stamp is always forthcoming, be the occasion a golden wedding in the country, a military dinner in town...