Word: great
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...GREAT interest having been manifested in the heretofore secret proceedings of a certain band of conspirators known to the College as the Ferocity, your correspondent, disguised as a poco, succeeded in obtaining entrance to their place of meeting, where, carefully concealed, he remained, a silent, but interested spectator of the proceedings...
...subjects for the second Junior forensic are as follows: 1. Should cabinet officers be held responsible to Congress? 2. Is Tennyson's poetry likely to survive its own times? 3. Should the personal provisions of testators be respected? 4. Which has more influence on a nation's development, its great men, the original character of its race, or the peculiar circumstances of its climate, soil, and geographical situation...
...SERIES of five concerts will be given in Sanders Theatre, on Thursday evenings of November, December, January, February, and March, by the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra of 40 members, with Mr. Bernhard Listemann as conductor. Distinguished soloists will also take part. The programmes will consist of a great variety of selections from old and new masters. Season tickets at $4 are now ready at the University Bookstore...
...only false but preposterously absurd. We should like to inform the Watchman: 1st, that the students of Harvard College have not formed a considerable part of the audiences at the performances of the "Black Crook," as will readily be seen from the fact that it would require great effort on the part of one thousand students to form a "considerable part of the audience," for two weeks, in a theatre that holds about twenty-five hundred persons; 2d, that the basis of fact, which the writer's imagination has distorted into the above statement, is that about one hundred Freshmen...
...writing-room. Here are to be found all sorts of directories, post-office guides, c letters for abroad placed in the boxes in this room are stamped and posted by the club, while those placed in the box for the town are delivered once an hour, - a great convenience where distances are so great as between Christ Church and Keble, for instance. On a table at the end of the room is a "complaint-book," in which members may write any complaint or any suggestion for the management of the club, to which the president makes reply on the opposite...