Word: fact
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...members of the adjoining sisterhood object to being "annexed." (Fact...
...such a subject as "Ideality in Science," for we do not believe there are ten persons in Cambridge who have any idea what on earth this means; and people certainly will not go to hear a lecture unless they know that it is to be given. If the fact that a lecture was to be given was not kept quite so dark, there might be more than a corporal's guard of listeners...
...Matthews, his six feet two of skin and bones clad in a nice new flannel shirt and in new brown knickerbockers and stockings to match, he created quite a sensation. His clean things, in comparison with the rough boating jerseys and dirty football trousers, made him conspicuous. In fact, Ferdy wished he were not quite so conspicuous, for it was n't pleasant to hear whispered remarks about "Freshy's telegraph poles," and "Freshy's leg is as big at the ankle as it is at the hip," and one fellow wanted to know which was his back and which...
...Report says, however, that the reason of this change is that the college year is thirty-nine weeks long this year, instead of thirty-eight; and, as this extra week is out of the common course, it is to be given us in vacation. It is a well-known fact that the large majority of instructors and students think that the ordinary recesses are insufficient; and we would strongly urge the Corporation to make this year's arrangement a permanent one. A saving of more than a week has been made in the time of the mid-year and annual...
...most unfortunate one, as it necessitates finding some other place for the instruction in elocution which is now given there by Mr. Riddle. We understand that he is now reduced to the alternative of giving his lessons either in the old Gymnasium or in Upper Massachusetts. Considering the fact that neither of these rooms can be heated, and that they are poorly adapted for this use even if they could be, this proposition seems about as cool as the emperature is likely to be. When an instructor has over one hundred and thirty pupils, it is but fair...