Word: among
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...author of the volume before us* has sheathed her sword in myrtle boughs, and presented to us the cause of co-education, hidden among as many hair-breadth 'scapes and stirring incidents as you will find in the last sensation novel, and adorned by the usual quotations from "The Princess." We sincerely hope that the heroine (cui nomen Wilhelmina, appropriately shortened to "Will") had no fewer adventures in her after life than in her college course; for she must have contracted a morbid desire for excitement during those four years. She saves a classmate (male, of course) from drowning, rides...
THERE is some talk among those who have lately been refused entrance to the Glee Club of starting a new musical society called "The Sore-headed Nightingales." If it will occasionally allow itself to be heard, the S. H. N. will soon replace in popular favor the H. G. C., which has confined its melody thus far to a privileged few only...
...rules are very strict about the observance of the "Lord's day," among them being this: "No one shall profane the day by unnecessary business, or visiting or receiving visits, or walking on the common or in the streets or fields." It might be well also to remember that they were obliged to attend church on Thanksgiving. Prayers were twice a day, at night as well as morning, by which means, I presume, the fines were vastly increased...
...number of matriculated students during the present winter at the Prussian University at Berlin is 2839. They are divided among the faculties as follows : theological, 168; legal, 1163; medical, 345; philosophical, 1163. There are 210 foreigners in the list, including 42 from America. Besides these matriculated students, there are 2200 other persons in attendance on the lectures, belonging to the various technical and art schools of the city. The corps of instructors numbers 210, nearly half of whom are in the philosophical faculty...
...respect for the esteem of the former, or contempt for that of the latter. Ossip, finally, is wrong when he says that we "merely" say "popularity is the result of insincerity." Our words were : "Popularity may result legitimately from truthfulness, or illegitimately from insincerity." But let us not among these subordinate blunders forget the vital question...