Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many good evening lectures that we have been enjoying lately on tariff legislation, philosophy and other questions of interest recall to our minds the brilliant series of lectures given during the winter of 1880-81. Why can not such an arrangement be repeated every year? If at least one instructor in each of the important departments of the university would be willing to give one or more evening lectures on his special subject, audiences would meet these gentlemen which, by their size, would show their appreciation of the efforts made for their instruction and pleasure...
...close application to pass in the June examination; and, when it is first begun, it is not the time to neglect it. At this time the freshmen are especially busy in preparing for the approaching examinations, one of which is Trigonometry. Either because the present freshman class is particularly brilliant or from some other reason, this subject has been finished three weeks before the examination. The students seem unanimous in favor of spending the remaining three weeks in review, or, at least, not on Analytics. The freshmen would not have too little work if these three weeks were devoted...
Professor Palmer occupied most of the hour in Philosophy III. Saturday in reading a brilliant article in the Berkley Magazine for 1882, from the pen of Prof. Royce, on "Pessimisms in Modern Thought...
...volume just completed the Lampoon, in our opinion, has attained to a higher mark of excellence than in any previous period of its always brilliant career. At no other time certainly has it met with a more flattering reception from the outside world nor with more universal approval from its readers in college. The success of the Lampoon has always been a matter of common pride with all Harvard men, and to its support heretofore they have always shown themselves ready to contribute whenever such support has been asked of them. It therefore seems like a sad commentary upon...
...athletes chose to come out and practice. This was a great mistake. The simple principles of lacrosse do very much to perfect a player in the points requisite for foot-ball, while they give him a test of speed and endurance necessary for track athletics. One of the most brilliant and successful players of last year's Princeton team owes his preeminence in dodging to his lacrosse training. Princeton has already waked up to the necessity of spring training for her foot-ball men, and the papers are urging them to take up lacrosse, on the ground that it will...