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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...examination to anticipate Junior and Sophomore Rhetoric will take place on Saturday, January 13, at 11 A. M. Text-books: Whately's Rhetoric, Parts I. and II.; Lessing's Laocoon...
JUNIOR AND SOPHOMORE RHETORIC (second half-year). The examination for those who wish to anticipate this study is fixed for Saturday, January 13, at 11 A.M. Text-books: Whately's Rhetoric (Parts I. and II.); Lessing's Laocoon...
...school, - gold-headed cane, gold spectacles, polished forehead, etc. He is rarely openly enthusiastic, and is never wildly demonstrative. His emotions of pleasure and disgust he generally keeps to himself. Occasionally you may see a cynical smile lurking in the corners of his mouth. But he seldom follows the text of the book which he holds in his hand, for in the intervals between his naps he amuses himself by studying character in the faces before him; picturing to himself so many future Emersons, Sumners, etc. He is never inspiring, - this typical member of an Examining Committee...
...heavy cloth, there is nothing in it that does not please the eye. So far I have done my best for you. There are two things which I have left to your own taste, - books and pictures. You will of course need to buy a certain number of text-books, and if you take my advice, you will also pick up from time to time any outside books that may suit your fancy. You can't have too large a library, and nothing furnishes a room so well. For my own part, the fellow who lined his walls with boards...
EVERY one knows how absurd this is, but it may serve, together with the letter upon boating which we publish this week, as a text for some remarks upon what the reporter calls our "enthusiasm." That we were not, last year, as enthusiastic over our crew as we should have been, is an admitted fact, and this gives a reason for the existence of such charges in regard to the training of the crew as are made in the letter referred to. No one can expect men to be very rigid in their self-discipline when it makes no apparent...