Word: books
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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INSTRUCTOR. I am sorry that the text-book gives no fuller account of this extraordinary...
...PEABODY will shortly issue a treatise on Moral Philosophy. It is expected that the class of '77 will study it in place of that antiquated book, Champlin's Ethics...
...hand may be found a book blue-bound...
...they are playing ball. Of course such a strict interpretation, and such a certainty of punishment in case of disobedience, awes every would-be offender. Neither a bat nor ball is seen inside of the yard. It is expected that soon no one will be allowed to toss a book about while walking through the yard, under penalty of suspension. Besides, to avoid all ambiguity as to the respectful attitude of the students toward the officers of government, it is recommended that the old rule forbidding any undergraduate to wear his hat in the yard unless it rain or snow...
...years, I took occasion, recently, to look it through again, and I see no reason "why it should not have been censured at the time of its publication because the characters were taken from Newgate." Although the remark might apply equally well to "Paul Clifford," I had not this book in mind, nor was I, as the author of "Lord Lytton" insinuates, totally ignorant of the story of "Eugene Aram" when I made the above-quoted comment. On the contrary, I then considered, as I still do, that this story, whose interest culminates in the unravelling of a mysterious murder...