Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...President has arbitrarily refused to the Harvard Union the use of Sanders Theatre for the public address contemplated for next week. Considerable surprise has been expressed at this decision...
...poet. You must have a poet's heart, too, - different from all other hearts. This is the most difficult part of the subject, and is apt to discourage beginners. Again, it is important to "have loved and lost." This is a comparatively easy matter. Another important point is the use of figurative language. To their reluctance to use more than one or two figures of speech in the same line may be attributed the bare, prosaic nature of the English poets, - notably Shakspeare and Tennyson. The celebrated phrase "To take arms against a sea of troubles," which some have ignorantly...
...that a set of tables has been prepared, which is of great assistance. These tables are simply lists of rhymed words, ingeniously arranged. The College papers will send them free to any address. Paste them in the fly-leaf of your Rig-Veda, or some other book in constant use, so that, at any moment you will be able to find the proper word. [And here it should be remarked that, granted the word, you have the poem; for thought (that is, a concept) is entirely out of place in a work of the imagination.] There are other tables containing...
...members of the K. N. Society left last year some twenty dollars to the members of '83, with the express condition that they are to use it as a contribution to a fund for getting a room for the Society. Some of the '82 men proposed to have a supper from the money left over in the treasury. The majority ruled that money left over thus does not belong to the individual members, but to the Society as such. For this reason it left the money to '83, with the condition above. This year, however, the Society did have...
...long time the College press has demanded that the Library be open Sundays, and we are glad to hear that their appeal has been heard at last. The Library next fall will be thrown open for the use of students on Sunday afternoons. We wish it might be opened next Sunday, but there is so little time remaining that it is scarcely worth the trouble. This will certainly prove a great convenience, not only to the hard student, but also to the devotee of light literature, not to mention the occasional user of reference-books. It is difficult...