Word: mainly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...picture-stand (made after similar ones in the South Kensington Museum) which may be found in the main hall of the Library there are engravings, woodcuts, and etchings, from the Gray Collection with one exception, - fifty in all. These are specimens of Durer arranged chronologically. That is, the woodcuts ranging from 1505 - 1511 are together, and then follow the engravings commencing with the "Prodigal Son," placed with six others "before 1495," and ending with the portrait of Erasmus, 1526. The two etchings on iron were done in the same year, and hence are introduced together among the engravings...
...press. And this applies to the class as a whole, and not to those few who in their own or partial friends' opinion have literary ability. On such as have, perhaps, never entertained the thought of their ability to write, we would enjoin the advisability of trying; for the main requisite is to have something to say, and surely among so large a number it cannot be but there are ideas and information for which the college at large would be the better. The success of the college press should be a matter of pride, not to any class...
Although the book is, as we have said, very interesting, the main purpose of the author is not to afford amusement; it is rather, as in his other works, to inculcate, by the force of example, manly and Christian character, and thus do honor to the memory of his brother...
...EDITOR: I heartily agree with your contributor upon the main points of his "Religion in Harvard." I need to apologize to you for saying the same things over again, and will urge as my excuse the irony which he employed, and which some seem inclined to take in good earnest. At the same time I hope to add some facts to substantiate his position...
...Boating Convention in our last issue had for its object, no doubt, the utter annihilation of the Magenta. Still, we feel in duty bound to present No. 7 to our readers, and will here state that, though the article was necessarily written in great haste, our opinions in the main are still the same; and we regret that our space will not allow us to explain and answer this week. The Anvil's own sportive account of the Convention is scarcely free from a certain "one-sidedness" that it complains of in others. The paper is interesting...