Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...board is a charge which is fixed at so much a month. These monthly items must come in those times in every term bill. If we regard January and February as disposed of, we have to saddle upon the twenty-seven days of March the charges which will properly belong when the monthly statement shall be made out to the whole of that month. That would have the same effect as was pointed out by the board of directors in the case of February. They reasoned in this way: The fixed items amount to say $2.25 a week...
...longer articles, which consist of both poetry and prose, are decidedly superior, both as to subject and treatment, to the corresponding features of American college journals. No attempt seems to be made at humorous writing, unless, perchance, it be a bit of verse. The contributions belong distinctly to the class called "solid," and are on such subjects as "Want of Leaders in Oxford," "Democracy and Culture," "University Men and Local Government." There is every evidence that these articles are read with interest, for quite a number of them have called forth lengthy rejoinders...
There are professors, but this is an honorary position merely. Nearly every week each one gives a voluntary lecture, but few attend. None of the professors belong to the colleges, but to the university itself, whose nominal head is the chancellor, a nobleman, and in reality but little connected with the place. Its real head is the vice-chancellor. Under him are two proctors (far different from ours, since they are very important personages in the community) who are a sort of police captains, and the police force at Oxford is, we are happy to say, quite of a different...
...These remarks in regard to the boating men are almost equally true of the ball players. The game has been reduced to a science, and only one who possesses the necessary skill and experience can hope to belong to the nine. ** The game, therefore, is limited to a class of experts, and only those who are members of the nine get the benefit of systematic training...
...Iris the snowy linen of fifty tables. On six courses dines the aesthetic Harvard man; and he often feels disposed to grumble at destiny if his pocket-book will not permit him to indulge in such extras as fresh salmon, straw berries in February, and all the delicacies that belong to the menu of a first-class hotel. Such a thing as a marked violation of good breeding is almost unknown at these tables. For six years from four hundred to six hundred students have eaten together in this the largest college dining hall in the world, and no disturbance...