Word: write
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...votre, WILHELMINE ELLIOTT.Miss Elliott seems to have devoted more time to the higher branches than to French, and would probably have done better to write her "invitation a la chasse" in Latin or Greek. In these languages, and in the other studies of "Ortonville University," she succeeded so well that she obtained a Commencement Part; and we need hardly mention that her subject was, "Woman in the Professions." We leave her on the point of entering a Medical School, hampered by an erst unfaithful, but now repentant lover, whom she has accepted on probation...
...Faculty has appointed the following members of the second-year class in the Law School, being those who passed the best examination in June last in the studies of the first year, to write parts for the next Commencement, from which the Faculty will select the part to be delivered; Barrows, Bradley, Croswell, Cushing, Du Bois, Green, Howland, Morawetz, O'Callaghan, Ritchie, and Wigglesworth...
...little previous practice, and has not learned to criticise his own work. If some arrangement could be made so that a theme could be returned with corrections in season to serve as a guide in the composition of the next, those who really wish to learn how to write would have an opportunity to make more rapid improvement than they can make at present...
...grinds," which are found only in very youthful and very Western papers, and in a contemporary from Connecticut, which we need not mention more explicitly. We learn from the OEstrus that California colleges are like our own, in some respects at least. There, as here, the editors have to write the papers; there, as here, athletics are neglected, and so on through the list of grievances. For purity of style and refinement of taste, we commend this item...
THERE is one improvement at the Library which has not yet been noticed. If any one wishes a book which is out, he has only to write his name and address on a slate at the desk, and when the book is returned he receives the following notice: "The following book asked for by you, -, is in the Library, and will be retained for you three days from this date. In calling for the book, present this notice at the desk...