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...years ago was indefinite, does anybody claim that the new system makes the case any better? Nobody is likely to do that. Or will some of our colleges say in substance to the father, Twenty-five years ago we made you a Bachelor of Arts for work that was somewhat indefinite, but we expect to make the case clearer to the public by giving the same degree to your son for work of an entirely different character? If the old degree is so indefinite and meaningless, it is strange that any of the reformed want it all. We should suppose...
...convinced of the commercial necessity of a language to be spoken by all nations, invented Volapuk, the etymology of which is based on French, German and Latin. There is but one declension, one conjugation, no article, no grade; and all prepositions govern the accusative. The conjugation of verbs is somewhat elaborate, but it is without exceptions. Volapuk has already been adopted in various parts of Australia, Syria, Germany and America. In Paris it is taught in thirteen institutions, and there are five newspapers published in it. We are quite prepared to believe the statement of Volapuk grammar that, "anyone, understanding...
...president and fellows have tried, through their treasurer, to manage the financial affairs of the university in a prudent and conservative way, though on the principle of applying their entire income to the objects of their trust. Since 1873 the times have been somewhat difficult for the trustees who had large permanent obligations like teacher's salaries, to meet with the diminishing income of safe investments in those 13 years the rate of income on the general investments of the university has fallen from 7 44 100 to 5 19-100 per cent, and it is still falling. The corporation...
...account of the threatening weather, an audience somewhat smaller than usual gathered in Appleton Chapel last evening to hear the address of Rev. Washington Gladden. He chose his text from the 2d chapter of Titus, 11th and 12th verses; "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly, in the present...
...Advocate for Jan. 21st is out to-day. The number, as a whole, does not do itself justice. The opening piece is a poem "To Clinton Scollard" which, being somewhat involved, holds its own in college poetry. The next article, "A Fellow Traveller," is the first of a number of short anecdotes. It has the recommendation of being interesting, but one feels a strong desire to assist the author on the matter of proper names and to suggest that there is something disagreeable to the reader at finding the hero in a town, beginning with an F and followed...