Word: true
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mere sprinkling of students, while the songs of the seductive Soldene draw full houses of Harvard men in town? Lovers of music may congratulate themselves that they are to hear the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra at all the concerts. The concerts are to be conducted, not by Thomas, it is true, but next best to that, by his assistant-conductor. The names of the eminent and celebrated soloists look well on paper, and should attract those for whom orchestral music has no charms...
...that an account appeared in one of the Boston daily papers, during the summer, of the evil practices of a certain instructor in German, now no longer connected with the college. It is still more to be regretted that there is every reason to believe that these charges are true. We have avoided hitherto saying anything about the matter, but now that it has become public, there is no longer any reason for keeping silence. A year ago last winter the attention of the Faculty was drawn to this man, and the charges against him appeared to them so well...
...Charles Sumner, Curtis. W. W. Coolidge: The Fall of Babylon, Da Ponte. Donaldson: The Last Soliloquy of Dr. Faustus, Marlowe. Evans: Rebuke to Cowardly Lords in 1852, Tennyson. Hale: Recreation, Helps. Hyde: The Gifted, Carlyle. Mercer: Speech of Henry V. before Agincourt, Shakespeare. Perkins: The Cloud, Shelley. Poor: The True Grandeur of Nations, Sumner. E. Robinson: The Rights of an English Subject, Erskine. Sargent: A Legend of Bragance, Adelaide Procter. Swayze: Boston and the Old South, Phillips. C. L. Wells: Immediate Emancipation, Brougham...
...walked on in deep reverie. "T is true," I said to myself, "that collecting is the rage of the age; I don't collect; can it be said that...
...help objecting to the practice. From an aesthetic point of view blouses of gray trimmed with crimson are not beautiful, and we have been told that one of the advantages gained by boarding in Memorial Hall is the refinement given by the artistic surroundings. Our second objection, it is true, is a weak one, but still is an objection. Unreflecting people might be apt to think that the presence of a base-ball suit in the Hall showed that the wearer had come directly from the ball field. Of course none but very thoughtless people would ever think...