Word: case
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...informed that the Faculty contemplate substituting for the roll call of students in each section, a method of registration by which each student is expected to report three times each week to the Proctor of his building, or some other authority in case he does not room in a Proctor's building; this provision is made to prevent non-residence of students. We should be glad to see real voluntaries given to the College, which of course means the abolition of a meaningless roll-call, but cannot judge of the system of registration until further details are made public...
...Another case of 'the last of your race,' I suppose," said I, taking my books. (My chum, you know, is the 174th great-grandchild of somebody; at least, he says...
...INTERVIEWS ON THE HARE AND HOUNDS CHASE."Your reporter first called on Prof. Epol Rabnud (the Dhin), who, in his usual chipper style, said: 'You see, sir, it is a most unexampled case of profit and loss. If you win, you receive an H. A. A. cup! And when you lose all, you only lose a scent!' At this juncture the learned gentleman fell asleep, and your interviewer was obliged to withdraw...
...worth incurring; but we have ascertained that it would be comparatively small. The cost of heating the theatre from the middle of this month up to the middle of April would be about one hundred and sixty dollars, and if the amount which would be paid in any case for heating it for evening entertainments be deducted, the net cost would be less than one hundred dollars. We cannot believe that even Harvard College is so poor that it cannot afford to devote this sum to keeping up the interest of one hundred and thirty men in an important study...
...machines for general development, such as those of Dr. Winship and others; but from thirty to fifty machines intended to develop the different parts of the body, in order that no one man may take possession of a machine and monopolize it, as was too frequently the case in the past. There will be a new style of adjustable pulling weight. In principle it is the same as the old pulling weight, but in the details of construction it is vastly superior. Wooden pulleys on steel shafts have been substituted for the old iron pulleys, and the cowhide has been...