Word: comers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty, and a large corps of ladies from the homes of professors and from the families of ancient lineage, of which there are several in Princeton. To the inquiring mind two things are at once apparent: first, that the upper-classmen have prevaricated in stating that the new-comer would meet here the same ladies that had entertained his father before him, and, secondly, that the proportion of ladies to students is so small that none but the brave, and moreover the very strategical, will be likely to secure more than a word with any one of them...
Members of History XIII who have ordered outlines of the course at the Co-operative Society, are requested to get them as soon as possible. Those not taken in a few days will be sold to the first comer...
...SNELLING.History XIII. The committee will consider that all subscribers who do not pay their subscriptions before Tuesday noon do not wish the notes, and their copies will be sold to the first comer...
...same professors, the injustice of the system would be greatly removed. It was for a prescribed curriculum that the marking system now in use was planned. There has been a change in the main system of study, but the old garments have been put upon the new comer without regard to style...
...this university, we suppose it is all right, and we should be thankful that we are permitted to use the building at all. But if not, it seems proper that we should be allowed as much freedom in the rooms it contains as is accorded to any chance-comer from the lower districts of Cambridge or Boston...