Word: rightnesses
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...which were a number of buildings, one or two of which had a painfully familiar look, as if they were the ghosts of former friends. My interlocutor was a young man of eighteen or so, elegantly attired in a suit of white cloth of a peculiar texture. On his right sleeve was what I at once recognized as a Tabular View, on his left a College Directory, on the back of his coat was the seal of Harvard in crimson; he wore a cap on which appeared the number 2004. From this last, and from his general expression, I judged...
...Princeton, after giving up (in the formal meeting at New York) all claim to the forfeit game with Columbia, and after agreeing to play a deciding game in place of it, now renews her attempt to take advantage of the for feiture, she does what she has a right to do, but not what we should expect of Princeton. [This is written without any further knowledge of Princeton's action than can be obtained from Yale's letter in the Boston Herald of January...
...acceptable to all the persons intended to be benefited, and partly because it would have devolved upon the corporation the constant care of deposits, large in the aggregate, belonging to individuals in their service, liable consequently to taxation and attachment, and conferring upon the owners a right of criticism and complaint touching the financial management of the University, such as no individuals now possess. The second plan was simpler, called for no sacrifice of present income on the part of the professors, and laid no new responsibilities upon the corporation; after being before the professors and assistant professors for several...
...Athletic Club (4 yds.), the time taken by the slowest of the three watches held by an amateur being 10 seconds. The other two watches, held by two well-known representatives of the sporting press, each registered figures inside even time; but the officials, wishing to err on the right side, if at all, took the time of the slowest watch as the record. Mr. W. B. Curtis, of the Spirit of the Times, however (one of the best judges of athletics in the country), states it as his opinion that the race was faster than 10 seconds...
...class of '80, were undoubtedly very well satisfied with the way in which it worked. On the whole, the system is a good one, and does encourage more systematic work; but there are several points in which last year's trial suggests modification of it. Thus, it seems hardly right that Honorable Mention in a modern language which may have been acquired abroad, should be considered a ground for a degree cum laude. Again, in the Greek courses, it is difficult to see why Greek 1 of two years ago is excluded from the count, while Greek 2 is counted...