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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HOWEVER high a stand Harvard may take in other matters, her position as regards music is not one that does her any credit. True, from the Catalogue we learn that she has a musical professorship and some five courses in music that are pretty well attended. Placards posted from time to time in the Yard, and brief accounts in the Advocate, inform us that a series of concerts is being given at the Sanders Theatre. The College herself has done her share; it is we who are to blame, and justly so, for Harvard's reputation as a college that...
...pardoned, however, for ignorance of its existence. Though it presents so flourishing an aspect on paper, its existence is but little more than nominal. During the middle of last term it gave some signs of vitality, but the exertion of its one concert seemed too much for it. We learn that it was often difficult to get even a quartette together, and that second tenors often had to take the place of first. If we are not misinformed, the club is in no better condition at present...
...learn from the Index that the most common names this year in college are as follows (the number of insertions being given...
...arriving at the same result with Professor Peirce by methods of his own. He was equally good in astronomy and physics. He was a good student in moral and intellectual philosophy. His forensics and themes, too, were sometimes of unusual merit. He never was a bookworm, however. Indeed, we learn from the pages before us that he seldom had a book in his hands; for neither at this time nor ever was he addicted to books, or much devoted to the regular studies of the college." Mr. Wright's standing was never high, nor did he aim to make...
...learn that he was of a "singularly amiable and compliant disposition," so much so that his friends would occasionally persuade him to take their water-pails and go down two flights of stairs to the college pump for their water...