Word: past
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty's decision in regard to Professor Ko's pupil from '83, is as follows: His six hours a week in Chinese for the past half year will count as a three-hour elective for the year, and the omitted three hours may be made up by him either this year or next year...
...effort was made to organize a club, but with little success. It was proposed to have a regular club-room, with the proverbial tea served to players, and in short it was to be fashioned after the manner of the whist clubs so famous in London during the past century. The latter scheme was soon recognized as impracticable, for reasons that will readily be apparent. It seems, however, that there are enough ardent admirers of the game in college to establish some sort of an organization which we are sure would soon become popular, and if this were done...
...often but little notice given in advance. A man may make the rounds even late in the afternoon and then find too late the next day that he has missed a notification that was of considerable concern to him for the earlier part of the day which is now past. It would be well if certain definite localities were adhered to for the posting of these official bulletins, and that care be taken to give notice in advance sufficient for all practical purposes...
There has been a noticeable improvement this year in the character of the subjects given out for sophomore and junior themes, to the great gratification of those on whom this duty of writing falls. All who have labored in former years under a certain past regime will appreciate the improved order of things, and many will regret that the opportunity to profit by it is past. There is an undoubted and valuable advantage in the practice of theme-writing, and it is well that the subjects for inspiration have been made so much more interesting and the methods of criticism...
...English Sonnets by Poets of the Past," edited by S. Waddington, and "English Sonnets," edited by J. Dennis, are recent English publications...