Word: performance
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Santa Claus' Deer" is a happy thought, well worked up; while "Rose Bud's Story" inculcates an important doctrine of physics in a felicitous manner. "Bronco" is well written, and will appeal to the love of animals in many boys; but the colt of that name is made to perform prodigies which will puzzle the experience of country-bred youths. The book appears at an opportune time of the year, and should be found in every child's stocking and on every Christmas-tree. It is printed in large type, on good paper, attractively bound, and costs...
...most thankless task to perform in College is the director of the Reading-Room. It is with feelings of pity that we have noticed his crestfallen look after he has asked half a dozen men to subscribe and has received not a single name. He is one from whom much is required and to whom little is given. If the gas in the room is cut off, if each subscriber's pet paper is not furnished him, or if there is anything else which is not just as it should be, the director is called to account...
...youngest class that we turn to fill their place; and it may not be out of the way, in this connection, to say a few words regarding the duties we expect them to perform...
...Courant and Record have got into an imbroglio of a most disgraceful character. The first blow was struck by the Record, in a four-page editorial of immoderate tone, charging the Courant with not fairly representing the College, and with having failed to perform the pledges given at its start. The spleen of the writer, however, is evidently directed against a particular individual, and finds vent in numerous villifying and offensive personalities. In the same issue a would-be humorous article contains several coarse and vulgar jokes at the expense of the Courant board. Thus far our sympathy is with...
...catalogue of this famous school is particularly interesting this year, owing to the great change that has lately been made in the course of studies. The object of this change is to meet the new requirements at Harvard; and as it was found to be impossible to perform the additional work in the already crowded three-year course, another year, called the "Preparatory," has been added...