Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...there no other available or mentioned; but it is at present away from the line of main movement, though not out of touch, being hard by Memorial Hall and many of the other buildings. But this would necessitate giving up, I infer, "Foxcroft," though that is, perhaps, not a serious objection. But I fall to see what possible objection obtains against the site at first suggested, i. e. that on the corner of Harvard and Quincy streets, accessible as it is to persons going in or coming out of Boston, and to so many of the private clubs...
...less serious side of the play is represented by the three typical characters, Malvolio, Toby Belch, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Malvolio may be described as a human donkey, one in whom the true relation of the parts of the character is hopelessly impaired by an inordinate self-conceit. Toby Belch, on the other hand, possesses a certain amount of wit and good humor which make him not unlike the famous Falstaff...
After two years' absence from the University I have immediately had occasion to notice the unfortunate management of the evening lectures, and I beg leave to express, through your columns, a serious protest against a method which provides seats for the public and turns from the doors the men of the University. I had, perhaps, expected that progression had been at work so far as to provide against this unwise and unjust condition, and so my feeling is as much that of disappointment as of renewed indignation...
...means, ended with the decision of the supreme court, by which the College property was declared exempt. The board of assessors and others in the city government, who hold the view that some of the property of the College ought to be taxed, are preparing a serious movement to bring about what they consider a more equitable basis of taxation...