Word: long
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...complains that the time allotted to the class prayer-meetings is taken up by remarks from ambitious young speakers, instead of by prayers. He tells us of one case where the prayer-meeting actually broke up after only two prayers! and of another "in which the speaker made a long argument for conversion when every one of his hearers had already been converted and was an active Christian." Let us hope that these glaring abuses will be done away with in future...
...called forth expressions of discontent. The fact is, the work to be done at that time is necessarily severe, for in the daily pressure of preparing recitations little time is found for reviews, and each student, however opposed to cramming, finds the few days before the examinations none too long for reviewing the half-year's work. The weeks prove anything but a vacation to most of us, and those favored ones who gain a little leisure towards the close of the examinations are envied by the less fortunate. More than this, two examinations...
...practise on his cornet as much as he pleased, and that if I did n't like it I could move. And this was not the worst; a Freshy overhead was lucky enough to have a piano, and banged 'Whoa! Emma,' and other Freshmanic ditties on it all day long, accompanying a chorus of some twenty classmates. I could n't study at all, with so much noise to distract my thoughts from Italian Grammar and Natural History; result, an average of forty and one fifteenth per cent for Sophomore year...
LORNE and Louise have paid a visit to McGill, and the Gazette gives us a long account of the proceedings. An address was inflicted on the vice-regal party, to which the Marquis responded, as usual, in some well-chosen words. A deputation of students presented a bouquet to the Princess Louise, which she was graciously pleased to accept. The Gazette says that "it is a matter of congratulation to know that no jealousy existed between the different faculties as to which one should be accorded the honor of presenting the bouquet." It is, indeed...
...sitting up for the first time, and in as much as I can't smoke and won't read, because it makes my head spin so confoundedly, the long, dull hours of the afternoon have dragged very wearily. I got my sofa moved to the window, where I had a prospect down the Yard. But as an all-day spectacle the Yard is not a success. I'm going home to-morrow to convalesce, and I rejoice, meanwhile, to watch the hurrying to recitation of those whom the rainy weather has not induced to cut. Presently this little bustle...