Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...poor engravings and cheap chromos; or that some gentleman, fresh from the Divinity School, and with its odor of sanctity about him, does not try to sell us a book which is the very thing to turn the hardened student from his evil ways, and give him the true view of life. The disappointment they show when refused can surely result from nothing but their sorrow at our blindness to our own interests, and is enough to make a tenderhearted man repent and invest. The utter absurdity of the articles offered for sale makes no difference...
AMONG the other reforms held in view by the College Government, we trust that an alteration and improvement of the Gymnasium holds a prominent place. The present building was erected some dozen years ago, when the importance of physical culture was just beginning to meet with its proper recognition, and when, moreover, the great increase in the number of students did not seem so near at hand as it afterwards proved to be. To-day the Gymnasium entirely fails to accomplish the object for which it was built. Let any one who doubts this visit the place between the hours...
...shall assume this burden, which is a comparatively light one when we consider the sums annually wasted in corrupt and useless schemes. We are happy to say that the Legislature, although the same body that passed the prohibitory law and refused to annul the Sumner resolutions, took a sensible view of this matter at least, and granted $ 50,000 to the Museum...
...securing a more desirable position in the college buildings. But under the present regulations he is excluded from any such privilege, and must take his chances in the general lottery. Even the plan adopted by a few last year of getting a Senior to retain his room, with the view of transferring it to them, is now impracticable, as a Senior would this year be required to sign an agreement to occupy in person the room retained...
...same number contains a poem, "Our Mother," which, though highly creditable from a filial point of view, contains much that is peculiar. The first verse, to quote Count Smorltork, "surprises by himself...