Word: months
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...There is to be the usual competition for the Prince Consort's Prizes for Modern Languages, some time during this month. The usual prizes will also be given for the English Essay and Latin Prose...
...last week may be taken as a fair example of English weather. The success of the Oxford or Cambridge man is not owing so much to his constitution and climate, as to his pertinacity in carrying out whatever he undertakes. Men in England will train honestly for a month at least before the day of the sports for which they enter. They will give up smoking, drinking, and late hours, and will do every day what they know they must do in order to secure a place. Who is there at Harvard that ever trained a month for our Athletic...
WHEN I came here first I was furnished by my father with a list of his friends in Cambridge, on whom he wished me to call. Of course I did not look on these calls with enthusiasm; but I decided that I would visit one a month, - there were nine of them, - and so have it over by the annuals...
...been brought down to a reasonable figure. The quality of the food has been quite good, and by the new system of extras the Directors have made it possible for each member to better it. There is no question, however, but that the fare did degenerate during the last month. The Directors should have taken particular pains to avoid this, for upon the reputation of the Association at the close of this year depends very much its success at the beginning of the next. The Directors who shall be elected in the fall must be vigilant, and see that...
...wages that makes the difference. In Thayer the servants earn $19.20 per month, in Beck they earn $26.00. Forty cents a week for each double room is the wages of the goodies. Seventy-five cents a week for each room is the rate of wages in Beck...