Word: devotedness
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An audience of about fifty listened to Mr. Pellew's Bowdoin prize essay on "Jane Austen and her Works" last night. Mr. Pellew gave a hasty sketch of Miss Austen's life with comments on her novels. He devoted considerable space to the influence which shaped her style and to...
The question of the use of the tennis courts on Holmes and Jarvis has been a much debated one. The Tennis Association, to whom the college naturally looked for a solution of the problem, has incurred much blame through its apparent inactivity. This inactivity has, however, been due to the...
A new New York weekly, the first number of which has appeared, has the title of The Student and Statesman. It is to fill somewhat the same sphere occupied by The Nation. It will have a column devoted to college news, and the design is to make it, in some...
While he lived here he had charge of the church at Charlestown, but, of his success as a minister, nothing is said. He could not have been a great preacher; we judge that he was only a man with an earnest purpose and fair ability. That he was generous is...
An English magazine has devoted three columns in a recent number to the evils of examinations, most of which applies mainly to preparatory and grammar schools. A few remarks, however, may be quoted with some bearing on the evils of the system here. It says: "It is no uncommon thing...