Word: variousness
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...theoretical grievance. I agree with you heartily in your protest against acts of insubordination and lawlessness by way of manifesting your discontent with the present compulsion. Nothing can excuse such acts as the recent disfiguration of the chapel, and nothing will more certainly impede your movement. Indeed, the various indications of late, that an element of rowdyism is reappearing a Harvard, will be seized upon as an argument that more, and not less restraint is needed...
...instruction, but will consist of lectures on the history of art. Prof. Allen Marquand will offer a course to the senior class on art in antiquity, with special reference to the arts of Egypt, Assyria, Greece, and Rome. Prof. Prince, of New York, will lecture on the histories of various arts. President McCosh has consented to give a few lectures on aesthetics, and Prof. Osborne on the anatomy of facial expression. The college already possesses several valuable art collections. Among these are interesting collections illustrating the arts of Mexico, Peru and the North American Indians; some valuable Assyrian guns...
...main dormitory, and shortly afterwards the line of march was taken up through the principal corridors of the building. Each young lady was provided with a candle, and a-well, no, not a "black bottle," but a bottle of salts, let us say. The procession was loudly cheered at various points on the route, and it was thought that the affair was to pass off without a jar, when suddenly, as the chief marshaless and her staff were about to descend the stairs leading to the ground floor, they were assaulted with orange peel, and showers of water...
...Other things near by give evidence that he is a member of the nine, plays on the foot ball team and belongs to the Harvard Dining Association; also that he is an editor of the Harvard Advocate, and connected in various ways with every other organization of the college. A certificate for Highest Second-Year Honors in Mathematics hangs in a conspicuous place on the wall, and on a side table is a nicely bound book, which on closer examination proves to be a "detur...
...wish to call the attention of the college to the debates held under the auspices of the Union. It is apparently only curiosity that induces the students at various times to fill the hall, while there are long periods of an attendance so slender that it is a reproach to the college. We should not consider the Union as a place of amusement, but as a source of one of the most important courses of training offered by the college curriculum. We cannot rate too high the power of properly expressing an idea in public, and a debating society...