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Dates: during 1880-1889
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More than half of the institutions in the United States which profess to give university education and confer degrees now admit women on equal terms with male students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 2/11/1882 | See Source »

...summut kinky, I'll admit," put in a new voice, that of old Batt Belcher - a dry and wizened specimen of the retired fisherman species. "She jes' tells him up an' down wut she thinks, an' - wal, ole Jake ain't none too pious, an' he jes' socks it to her agin. An' so it goes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A POSETT EPISODE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...manner, means, quality-and price. Hence I could not but ponder with much anxiety on the question, how long the coattails should be, if indeed it were not better to stick to the old-fashioned sack, and how large a pair of shoes the trousers should be made to admit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY CLOTHES. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

...brain. If the ground were cold, it would also be unhealthy to remain on the knees, as you are doing; but, since it is a hot day, you may use your own pleasure about that. As to objection to any match that I might select for you, I admit that I did not expect it. I have explained my views so often that I supposed you to be familiar with them. If you wish to hear them again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 11/25/1881 | See Source »

...would at once say that no man in the Faculty is competent to deliver such a lecture. They would say that any one of them, though he may endeavor to be unprejudiced, still would show more enthusiasm on the subjects toward which his tastes have led him. We will admit this, and can offer as an alternative, that three or even four lectures be given by men representing different branches. Thus students, when they reach their Senior year, can blame but themselves if their knowledge consists only in facts gleaned from electives whose apparent "softness" and convenient hours have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A STITCH IN TIME. | 11/11/1881 | See Source »

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