Word: instead
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ONLY fourteen men have taken advantage of the privilege of attending morning prayers at St. John's Chapel during Lent, instead of at the College Chapel...
...leaving their names at the office, all who wish to do so may attend morning prayers at St. John's during Lent, instead of at the Chapel. The service begins at 8 o'clock...
...while revelling in your texts of Bibl. Teubner., that we poor mortals can get no classics of later date than 1870. Then my pupils will take as models those antiquated old fossils who talked about the rules of euphony, and who translated princeps by chief or emperor, instead of head. In addition to these troubles I have to resist all the time the students' inclination to use Biblical English, or, in default of that, such provincial phrases as no well-educated man can employ...
...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...
THIS is a specimen of what the New York Graphic can do: "Harvard, instead of rowing across the high seas, will challenge either Columbia or Cornell, - the high C's of American Colleges...