Word: bi
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brunonian says: "The Harvard papers have quite taken the lead in the light-story literature toward which nearly all the best college bi-weeklies have been tending during the current year. It has been found that deep and weighty articles, however well thought out and however well written, fail to command the same attention of the readers as light, entertaining stories, setting forth some ridiculous situation or recounting some amusing episode...
...recent editorial in one of our bi-weeklies it is attempted to show that the German instruction suffers in no respect when compared with that furnished in the French course. We are far from assenting to this, as we have frequently asserted that French is the best taught modern language that the curriculum offers. Can one find in the German electives the carefully graded courses corresponding to French 1, 2, 3 and 4? or does one hear in all the German courses a pronunciation equally good as that employed in all the French courses? Both of these questions...
...notice in our exchanges very frequent compliments paid to the Crimson and Advocate. They are generally regarded as among the very best of college bi-weeklies both as to their editorials and stories and poems...
...Academy says : "The project has already taken shape to celebrate the bi-centenary of the death of Murillo, which took place in Seville in 1685. It is proposed to have a collection not only of the works of Murillo himself, but also of his contemporaries of the Spanish school and of living Spanish artists as well...
...town. This, however, is but the inevitable separation of 'town and gown,' as wide in Cambridge as in Poughkeepsie. The world outside goes about its business, and the colleges do the same." We may also notice that the "annex" is discussed in the current number of "Education," the bi-monthly review...