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SHARP approaches. MRS. MARRYWELL turns away to give free scope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

...agreeable to him, and that the College will be able to profit by his services. We believe that positive advantage will be derived from this new experiment; for whatever may be the result, it is evidence of a desire on the part of the College government to widen the scope of the University curriculum, which must command the approval, not only of Harvard students, but of all true friends of education throughout the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/25/1879 | See Source »

...second of the lectures given in Boylston Hall, under the charge of the Philosophical Club, was delivered by Professor Howison, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wednesday evening. Subject: "The Scope and Value of Philosophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

...distinction it has heretofore conferred. Honors in an institution of learning can have no other object than to incite a spirit of emulation among its members, and we have no doubt that the Faculty, by a juster distribution of them, and by an enlargement of their scope, will increase their efficiency. It is difficult to conceive of an objection to a just and fair acknowledgment to any student for what he has done, irrespective of what he has left undone, except it come from one who in the midst of plenty cannot enjoy it unless those around him are starving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

...miller, presented a pleasant picture of rustic jollity, and was very successful in his two songs. Mr. Twombley played and dressed the part of the miller's wife excellently, and his song in the prison scene was received with great applause. Mr. Bowen as the Princess found rather small scope for his talents, but gave the "Oxygen" song, "Go Away," with good effect, and was loudly applauded. Messrs. Urquhart and Sheafe, as the gold-spinning maid and her princely lover, acted and sang their parts to the satisfaction of the audience, Mr. Sheafe's serenade in the second act being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOAT-CLUB THEATRICALS. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

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