Word: civility
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...Sanders Theatre began at 11.30, when the Senior Class entered the crowded auditorium and took their seats in the parquet. Dr. Peabody made the opening prayer. The Oration, which was delivered by Mr. Charles Moore, related to young men in politics. His views of the present condition of the Civil Service were bold, yet thoughtful, straightforward, but not opinionated, and were received with applause by the audience in the galleries as well as by his class. There was a judicious absence of the "spread eagle" in this oration...
That Definition. - At a meeting of representatives of Oxford and Cambridge, and the principal boat-clubs in London, held on April 10, the following definition was adopted: "An amateur oarsman or sculler must be an officer of her Majesty's army or navy, or civil service; a member of the liberal professions; or of the universities or public schools; or of any established boat or rowing club not containing mechanics or professionals, and must not have competed in any competition for either stake, or money, or entrance fee, or with or against a professional for any prize, or have ever...
...contains accounts of the affray, editorial comments, words for the Freshmen, words for the Sophomores, etc., ad infinitum. All that is wanting is a word for Dr. McCosh and the rest of the College Faculty, who should have had the courage to hand over the offenders to the civil courts as soon as the disturbances occurred...
CANDIDATES for second-year honors in classics will substitute Ovid's Fasti for Lucan's Pharsalia. The list as corrected stands : Cicero, De Officiis ; Caesar, Civil War ; Virgil, Georgics and AEneid, - Books VII. - XII., inclusive; Ovid, Fasti...
...Modern Greek, Asian, African, Australian History, and, last of all, Crusoe Literature. An extensive index at the end gives the men, place, subjects, events, etc., mentioned in the body of the book. Each subject is chronological, beginning, for instance, in American History, with the Northman discovery, ending with the Civil War of 1861. Nearly every work of fiction of any value is included, from Optic's "Frank on the Gunboat" to Lope de Vega's "Probeza no es Vileza." The popular character, fashionable life, provincial and peasant life, so far as possible, are represented; nor are university life, law life...