Word: applicatione
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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EACH decade of college life brings forth new words, the derivation, meaning, and correct application of which are often distorted; one year they may express one thing, and the next fall into disuse. The word which forms the caption of this article, since it is turned from its usual signification...
GENTLEMEN, - In an interesting notice of the Gray Engravings, in the last number of your paper, the writer referred to my proposed scheme of photographing the collection. His statements were, I believe, correct, excepting in one point which nearly concerns the publishers; and for their sake I make this correction...
There will be an opportunity for continuous application to one subject, and for a deeper interest than usual, which shall lead men to thorough investigation. At present this is impossible, when all the time is divided among eight or ten different studies, no one of which is looked at oftener...
"The College, regarded as a place of instruction and discipline, has grown and improved so much during the last twenty years that it is not unreasonable to hope that it will soon get entirely rid of a certain schoolboy spirit, which is not found in the professional schools, and which...
Applications are made by note, and only a few, in the order of their application, can be accommodated in the one alcove at a time.