Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Regulations: "No student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever."
"A student who is not in the examination room within five minutes after the hour appointed for the examination shall not be admitted without permission of the instructor or of the officer in general charge of the examinations."
Last night in Appleton Chapel the opening service of the year was held, a large congregation listening to a sermon from the Rev. President William J. Tucker, D. D., of Dartmouth, and to short addresses by the Rev. Endicott Peabody, and the Rev. George F. Moore, D.D.
President Tucker spoke from a text taken from Romans XII-15: "Rejoice with them that rejoice." For the average person it is harder to rejoice with others than to share in their sorrows. It is of course true that one is as much a duty as the other, bnt rejoicing...
At first the joy in our lives must be that of hope, of mere unfulfilled promise. Youth abounds in those qualities which are essential to this--that is, a sense of humor, unfailing sympathy, and faith. Hard it undoubtedly is to live almost wholly in what the future may bring...