Word: comes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Last Saturday I was vegetating in St. Goar Library, on the Rhine. Now, owing to the numerous Puritanical cliques in this charming city, the conseil municipal (corresponding to what you call the Library Council) has come to the conclusion that, after going to church, a man ought never to play billiards or cards, or drink anything stronger than H2O, enlivened by a little soda-water, alleging that nothing is more detrimental to orthodox principles than having the mind occupied on the Sabbath. So they close the library and close the cafes and close the shops, thus obliging you to seek...
...S.FIVE men of the old crew will row this year, as Mr. Stow has decided to come back to the crew, and is now in training. Five men from the old crew is an unexpected pleasure...
Enter MR. JOHN BROWN and MISS SARAH JONES, Sophomores.SHE. Come, Jack, you must hurry through your dinner in two hours and a half, for I've engaged you for the first waltz. (Beckoning to the attentive waitress.) Are there really no other soups but Bisc a la Reine and Consomme...
...Faculty, by a juster distribution of them, and by an enlargement of their scope, will increase their efficiency. It is difficult to conceive of an objection to a just and fair acknowledgment to any student for what he has done, irrespective of what he has left undone, except it come from one who in the midst of plenty cannot enjoy it unless those around him are starving. But such a spirit can never be the fruit of the liberalizing tendency of intellectual culture...
...plan of degrees and honors proposed by the Committee on Honors and Honorable Mention has passed the Faculty with some modifications, and will now come before the Overseers. 80 per cent on eight hours, instead of on six, will be required for Honorable Mention, but if the subject is English, 85 per cent will be required. The degree of A. B. cum laude will be given to every one who attains 75 per cent on his college course, or receives Honorable Mention in one study, provided in the last case that he attains 70 per cent on his college course...