Word: extent
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Further on the author inspires us with hopes of a still greater reward. He says that if we thus introduce ourselves to the notice of the young ladies in question, it cannot fail to challenge their admiration, while their gratitude may be relied on to an unlimited extent." Is the author sure that he is not promising more for our Wellesley sisters than they are prepared to accord...
...much as they are simple statements of College events, are correct, but the remaining are either creations of a fertile brain or slight events wrought up in such a marvellous manner as to show that the imagination of the writer was drawn upon to a dangerous extent...
...gratulatory oration in English." Its existence has not been uneventful. Struck by lightning in 1768, its honest old frame survived the thunderbolt as it has now defied the fire. In 1775 it was used as a barrack for the troops, and was damaged by our patriotic soldiers to the extent of Pound 67 sterling, an account which was afterwards allowed by the Legislature. It is with sincere pleasure that we hear that No. 8 Hollis has escaped a heavy dose of that uncongenial fluid whose presence - particularly in punch - is so certainly de trop; for this hallowed room was occupied...
...cheering and to the singing of the Class Song no one surely can offer a reasonable objection. The scramble for the flowers is boyish nonsense, it may be said, and unworthy the dignity of Seniors. To a certain extent this charge is true; but is it so unbecoming to play the boy for a few moments before we separate to take our places in the world as men? The costumes which this exercise compels us to don are often quaint, if not handsome, and at least offer some relief to the eye from the dress-suits worn the rest...
...caution is hardly necessary as to the extreme rapidity with which absences sum up when there is a confirmed habit of cutting uninteresting recitations on small provocation, and yet, probably, these swell the black list to a large extent. The apparent fallacy in the position is the exhorting of students to keep up an artificial state of attendance on recitations, while the experiment looks to ascertain the real disposition of students with regard to the matter. This, however, disappears when we remember that the test which the authorities are agreed to apply is an arbitrary and perhaps inadequate one, namely...