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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thing for an instructor to give out a paper with as much work on it as is generally to be found in any two hour paper. Although it is quite a difficult thing for him to judge exactly how long his paper shall be, yet he should bear in mind that there are many students who cannot write one half as rapidly as others, and who, also, lacking conciseness in expressing themselves, are unable to write the whole paper in an hour, though they may have a perfect knowledge of the subject. Then, too, in hurrying through a paper with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...glad of it; you have taken quite a load off my mind, for I feared that you were in danger of dismissal. Well, Fred, I won't detain you longer, your sisters are dying to know all about college; but before you go, here's a specimen of specie payments from me as a Detur for your good work in Latin and Greek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...hotels and restaurants. We would suggest a comparison of these to the stomach; it is certainly just as appropriate as a comparison of the cemeteries to bones, which is made farther on. Mr. King gets more and more mixed up in his metaphors as he proceeds. The lungs, mind, brain, tongue, soul, heart, pulse, and bones are made to do duty, and by hook or by crook something is scared up to which each of them is compared. But finally the theatres and insurance offices present too many difficulties, and the attempt to continue the metaphor is given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK REVIEW. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...dearth of those first-class giants of which a good crew should always have three or more." Then follows a criticism of the men individually, which suggests that there is material in the boats that can be improved and developed in time. The impression left on the reader's mind is that Oxford is disappointed in her trials, and that her 'Varsity next Easter will not be the crew that she would like to enter in an international regatta. "We hardly expect the crew," says the Gazette, "to be quite so good as that of last spring, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OXFORD TRIAL EIGHTS. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...This year I took a ground-floor room in Holworthy, thus making sure of having no one beneath me, and having ascertained that two very quiet Seniors were above me. But I did not enjoy my peace of mind two hours. I had no sooner thrown myself on my lounge to think over my comfortable prospects, than I was startled by a tremendous yell of 'Jim' just outside my window. As my name happens to be Jim, I thought that there must be some very urgent need of me, and flung open the window just in time to hear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT." | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

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