Word: also
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...also interesting to notice that in Malory's history the legend seems tinged with the Greek idea of fate and of slowly coming retribution. Malory's Arthur is not the spotless knight of Tennyson, but one who has committed a deadly crime, the punishment for which and for the sins of his knights is gradually being developed...
DURING the coming spring the Athletic Association intend to have on every Saturday a few scrub-races, in order to keep the men in good training, and in order, also, to get some idea of the relative merits of the contestants before the summer meeting...
...Commencement is, however, to be discontinued, and orations have been assigned to those students who have obtained the requisite mark. The other schools which have neither had a Commencement of their own nor have been represented in the Academic Commencement will hereafter take part in the exercises. There will also be addresses delivered by recipients of the degrees of A. M., Ph. D., etc. The exercises will be much more largely attended, because of the increase of interest among the friends of those who have hitherto been rather unjustly unrepresented, and the completion of the Theatrum will be opportune both...
...powers. How it was elected we do not know, but from one authority we learn that it was elected by and composed of persons who seem to have been otherwise wholly unconnected with the town. The immediate government was vested in a Legislature of one chamber, which had also judicial power, elected in some unknown way, and responsible, not to the people, but to the higher body. The executive was an officer, called sometimes the Dean, and sometimes the President, elected by the higher body, and holding office during good behavior. That a government so arbitrary, and so entirely beyond...
...race of fierce savages, called "Port peelers," who infested a high mountain near the place called "Mt. Auburn," whence they frequently descended, and bearing away every one whom they met, buried them alive on the slopes of the hill. Query: Was "port" an abbreviation of porto? The men had also a feud with a certain Yale, of which nothing more is known. Men are often spoken of as "deading"; may they not have been killed in these contests...