Word: using
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last concert of the series by the Glee Club was given in New Bedford on the evening of Friday, May 1. Although the voices showed unmistakable signs of excessive use, and, for that reason, the singing was not as good as is usually heard from the Club, the audience was evidently well pleased. "Ave Maria" was well rendered, though not so smoothly as usual." To Thee, O Country" secured its accustomed encore. The solo in "My Queen" was remarkably well sung, and in answer to a rapturous encore of the piece a serenade by Raff was given. The piano duet...
...very nature of the subjects taught. We are forced to study wholly useless subjects, several centuries old, which custom retains in the University courses without other reason that that of their antiquity. Of what value are Latin verses? Of what utility Greek themes? Above all, of what earthly use are Latin orations? And why even orations, and always orations? Have n't we already enough fine speakers? Have not we Frenchmen already too strong an inclination to give ourselves up to the charm of sonorous words, even when beneath there lies no sense to sustain them...
...University Review, of Wooster, O., is the next paper that attempts to raise its moral reputation by a "goody" attack upon tobacco; the chief argument against its use being the startling and brilliant discovery that it is a "filthy weed." The writer seems to think that if he throws enough mud, some will surely stick; and so, Swinburne-like, wallows in a mire of coarse invective. Confessing that we do not see anything inherently nasty in the smoke of an aromatic herb, whatever may be the mental effects, we give a few selections as samples of the style of argument...
...Courant board. Thus far our sympathy is with the Courant, but, unfortunately for its fair repute, it now enters the ring with the weapons of its rival, and in the editorial columns appears a reply, signed by the writer, attacking - also by name - the Record editor, and making use of the lowest Billingsgate. The root of the whole matter is evidently the high and mighty Senior societies, Skull and Bones, and Scroll and Keys, the advantages of which, the Record proudly says in a recent number, could never be supplied by the clubs of Harvard. The petty political bickerings which...
...Cornell Times, in an editorial bemoaning the lack of interest shown by young Americans in the condition and history of their own country, makes use of the following "very remarkable expression": "We venture to assert that there are not very many young men in this institution - and we certainly do not think there is at Harvard or Yale - who have read the political history of the United States as given by Van Buren, Greeley, or Stevens; if there is, we should be glad to hear from them." We don't think there is many, but if there WAS, we would...