Word: sides
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...truly enjoyable, after a perusal of the literature which fills most college publications, and which appeals most strongly to the charitable side of one's nature, in consideration of the extreme youth of the writers, to hit at last upon one which talks in a straight-forward, interesting, and instructive manner on subjects which it knows something about. Such a paper we welcome under the name of the Acta Columbiana, formerly the Cap and Gown, of Columbia College, N. Y. City. In consequence of a coalition in the editorial department between the academies and the School of Mines, the paper...
...army. Thus it happens that we have those barracks that are called colleges, and those half-military uniforms with which the students are afflicted. It is even a subject of gratitude that they were not also obliged to march to recitation to the music of the drum, sword at side and musket on shoulder...
These ancient landmarks which are scattered around us on every side have a history, to learn which is to learn much of the history of the United States. In what better way can we acquire this knowledge than by uniting what we gather from books with actual observation? When the memory is tasked to give a description of a place, imagination pictures it much more correctly if it has been seen. So when we endeavor to recollect what the causes of any particular event are, we are much more successful if the spot where the event occurred has been visited...
...event in the outside world could more nearly affect our community than the terrible ocean disaster just reported from the other side, where the survivors from the "Ville du Havre" have arrived to tell their sad story. European travel has become of late so common that the first-class steamers on all the lines rarely sail without a full complement of passengers, including America's best and most respected citizens. Such is the regularity of our steamship communication with Europe that the formerly much-dreaded dangers of the sea are almost overlooked, till some such accident as the present warns...
...pages. It is very interesting, extremely sensible, and thoroughly feminine. As comparisons are odious, we will not draw any; but when we make a mental contrast between the Packer and some of its masculine, "poluphloisboical" "University" brethren, we are free to say that the advantage lies all on one side...