Word: laterizing
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...opportunity to make a statement of the difficulties under which the work has been progressing. If a satisfactory poem had been handed in, as requested, a week from the day on which my former notice was printed in your pages, the first rehearsal would have taken place three days later than 82's. But what had been received was unsatisfactory to the members of '83 whom I had selected as critics, and I have spent the last two weeks in endeavoring vainly to obtain verses. Finally, in defiance of form, and against my inclination, I have been obliged to scribble...
...next number of the Century will appear several letters written by Emerson soon after he left Harvard. In one of these letters he enthusiastically praises Walter Scott, comparing him to Shakespeare. In another he expresses an opinion which he thoroughly disowned in later life - this opinion being that the Greek authors should be read only in the original...
...even of tradition, in the athletic annals of the college that a freshman nine has never beaten Yale. Yet there are a few now living who can remember that '81 was the last class to beat Yale in base-ball, and in view of a coincidence which shall later appear, it may not be uninteresting to '86 to know just how the thing was done...
Tickets not sold at these times will be sold by the committee to members of the senior class on a day to be hereafter appointed. Provision will be made later for undergraduates and employes of the college...
...that Harvard ever gave, was conferred on General Washington, for "his eminent services in the cause of his country and to this society." The first governor who had a degree was James Sullivan in 1807-8; but it is noteworthy that down to 1823 and even later, with few exceptions, the governors already possessed degrees given by the college. From Gov. Sullivan in 1807 until Gov. Butler in 1883, each one, with one exception, (namely, Increase Sumner, in 1797,) has had his degree, and since 1840 there has been an unbroken line of governors who have had honorary degree conferred...