Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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As Boston could be reached only by a long walk, students rarely attended social parties, and then did not mingle with Cambridge people. The principle intellectual interest was the study of Shakespeare, and one of the strongest influences in College life was school teaching. Systematic exercise of any kind was...
About this time (1803) the authorities raised the standard of admission, and required examinations in Dalzel's "Collectanea Graeca Minora," the Greek Testament, Virgil, Sallust and Cicero, with a knowledge of Greek and Latin grammars. The candidates had to be well versed in geography and arithmetic.
The following is a part of the official report of illness in the University during the year 1898-99. Compared with the previous year, there is a larger grand total, which is due to the increased miscellaneous diseases, especially during the months of December and January. There is, on the...
Cases carried over from preceding month (not included in body of table, 0 2 25 64 137 54 82 63 70 5 502 Grand total, 2 183 362 407 480 285 544 515 402 27 Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June Number days illness, 2 625...
The stories and poems in the current number of the Advocate are facile but superficial as usual. Ordinarily a number contains a leading piece, which, by drawing favorable comments to itself, serves to buttress the remaining weaker portions of the paper. But in this, the New Year's number, there...