Word: americanisms
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...change does not mean that Oxford University has changed its requirements. All who wish to follow the ordinary curriculum must pass the Responsions in Greek before they can offer themselves for any examination which presupposes Responsions. The Responsions are the first of the three examinations for the Oxford degree. American students who pass the qualifying examinations in Latin, Greek and mathematics will be exempt from Responsions henceforth...
LIBRARY EXHIBITION. "Political Pamphlets of the American Revolution." Professor Chauning will speak at 7.30 P. M. Treasure Room of the College Library, 7 to 9.30 P. M. The exhibition will remain open on Friday, March 12, from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M., and Professor Channing will repeat his remarks at 3 o'clock. Open to the public in the afternoon on application at the desk in the Delivery Room...
...authority of the Corporation the price of board in Memorial Hall on the American plan is hereby guaranteed not to exceed five dollars a week during the remaining period of operation this year. The usual allowances for absence will be made...
Herr von Heymel ended his lecture with a plea to students in American universities and colleges, and particularly in Harvard, to remember that the living exist for the living, and that it is the duty of art lovers in this country to encourage and assist artists to seize the splendid opportunities which America holds out to them...
...music, but most of the sense is beyond me. H. T. Pulsifer's sonnet on Lincoln is, like much of the verse on the theme published during the last month, a trifle too high-pitched to suggest absolute sincerity; and to be insincere about Lincoln is a crime. The American people have doubtless been much moved in recalling their great hero, but it is only the poets who have been blinded by "a veil of sudden falling tears...