Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WORK is progressing rapidly on the boat-house. Painting will begin as soon as the weather permits. It is expected that the floats will be got off this week...
...Tabular View tells us that from April 1st all the morning exercises will be held an hour earlier than at present; that prayers will come at a quarter before seven, and that recitations will begin at eight. Why this change should be made it is hard to see. The present arrangement is very satisfactory to all concerned, and it is certain that the new one will be decidedly unsatisfactory to many students, and presumably to such professors as are obliged thereby to be at the post of duty as the clock strikes eight...
Another thing which accounts for the unpopularity of much of our poetry is its very affected vocabulary. About one half the sonnets begin with "O" or "Thou," and it is a chance if the author can get through without using "lush," or mentioning the nightingale; a bird rarely seen or heard, and so very useful, since imagination fills up the blank as the context requires.* What "lush" means it would be hard to say, and as for the average "O," it reminds one of the "indeed" or our ante-collegiate (?) days. If you cannot write poetry naturally, you had better...
...boat-house has at last passed out of the hands of the H. U. B. C. into those of the College, and the work of remodelling the building is to begin immediately. The change is for the better, and a new impulse will be given to boating. The Corporation has made no present to the H. U. B. C., but their action is as liberal as could be expected, considering both their own position as to the funds at their disposal, and their knowledge of the manner in which business in general is carried on by undergraduates...
...year examinations end to-morrow. Recitations begin on Monday, February...