Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...them are elective. In senior year, eleven exercises a week are required, in part prescribed and in part elective; opportunity is afforded to pursue, also, a number of optional studies. The above requirements do not include the weekly rhetorical and the Sunday Biblical exercises; nor certain lectures specified later, given in junior year...
...particular thing, whether it is a city, a tomb, or a set of jewelry, he is morally certain to find it. He dug for Noah's ark in the Hill of Hissarlik, and he found it on the second day, not more than seventy feet below the surface. Later excavations have laid bare the entire ark, though, thanks to the great discoverer's precaution in putting a board fence around it and in compelling his workmen to dig with their eyes blindfolded, no one except Dr. Schliemann and his wife has yet seen the ark. Of the identity...
Provision will be made later for undergraduates and for employes of the college...
...preparatory schools frequently take but a mediocre rank in college. While the saying is trite that high rank in the freshman year often means but a subordinate position at graduation, on the other hand it is almost a college tradition that the man who ranks high in the later years of his course usually stands in the lower or middle section of his class in his earlier years at college, principally, we presume, because the rise or decline of a student in such cases is as a matter of course very marked. It must be admitted, we think, that here...
...student. The account of the affair is highly dramatic and very edifying. "There had been rumors," it reads, "that students were contemplating a lark, and President Folwell, with Professors Moore and Pike, decided to watch for developments at his house. The night wore on till 2 o'clock or later, when President Folwell discovered a party approaching and started to meet them. They dropped the gates which they bore, and all but one ran back to Fourth street, pursued by President Folwell. This one, who was Asa Paine, the victim of the shooting, ran straight by the president...