Word: writing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Perkins will be let, together with a supply of wood and coal, for $45. The room faces east and can be occupied by two persons. Inquire or write to room 2, No. 9 Linden...
PROFESSOR FOLEY, one of the best teachers of boxing and wrestling in America. Students taught at their rooms or gymnasium. Inquire for or write to Professor Foley at the Hemenway Gymnasium...
...current number of the Advocate which receives notice in another column is, as there stated, an attempt at an explanation of the failure of undergraduate literary work to attain a higher standard, by suggesting that it is due to lack of experiences which furnish live topics to write about. The writer says truly that experience is necessary, "for nothing is heeded which has not the ring of actual knowledge." He goes on to say that the college man exhausts his stock of college experiences in his Freshman and Sophomore years and then "grows stale...
...wish to call attention again to the proposal of several weeks ago, that Harvard should have some recognized University slogan as well as a cheer for use at games and in celebration of victory. The idea was, that all those who possess the gift of versification should endeavor to write a short song to be set to some familiar and stirring music, and should send the same to the CRIMSON to be submitted to a competent committee...
...same column is a comment on undergraduate writing. "We come here with no experience whatever, and in this interval, when experience is at once lacking and inaccessible, we sit us down to write literature." In a man's Junior year "he overdraws his slender fund of college experiences. Next he 'goes stale,' and further effort as long as he stays in college is useless." This, howver, may not be generally accepted as the condition of the normal undergraduate writer...