Word: publication
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Borestown Public Library - open...
THAT the authors of the neat pamphlet now before us should have refrained from making public their names certainly shows commendable modesty. Nevertheless we cannot help regretting that writers who are evidently destined to make their mark in the field of literature should have felt this hesitation. The mantle of the Rev. Edwin Abbott - name dear to Sophomores - has certainly fallen upon these gentlemen; its voluminous folds, however, do not entirely conceal them. Perhaps they anticipated...
...several entreaties to reconsider their action, consented to return only on the condition that the two gentlemen whom the members of the "Quartette" regarded as the prime movers in this affair should resign. The Glee Club, recognizing, by this time, the impolitic step which had been taken in calling public attention to the "Harvard Arion Quartette," and feeling the imperative need of first tenors, avoided further collision by letting the blame of this action rest on two individuals, and by voting that it would be expedient for them to resign...
Whereas, We remember his refined tastes, frank character, and his genial disposition; his knowledge of men and the public spirit which made him prominent in the councils of the class...
...gone by when students, as a general rule, enter college with the intention of obtaining what is usually understood as a "liberal education." In old times things were different. That was the period when learning was the special privilege of the few, but now, when education runs through the public schools and colleges free to all as the water that satisfies the thirsty, affairs are changed, and institutions of learning must be guided by the progress of events, and conform to the present condition of the world...