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Hereafter, the lists of annuals may be expocted on April 15th, and the list of senris on Dec 15th. By the custom that has boon in vogue on taenest year or two, these lists will be posted on or about...
...students in college little realize what a priceless boon has been extended to them. A firm has been established in Chicago known as the "Student's Literary Bureau," whose object will be to write "essays, orations and poems on every conceivable subject or theme." The terms are at the rate of one dollar for a single oration or essay. It is to be hoped that the firm will not be favored with many calls from this quarter.- (Amherst Student...
...Harvard of the West." This college has a great work yet to perform... With an occasional newspaper notice, this college is practically unknown beyond the circle of its alumni and students...Cannot some one suggest some means for directing the public eye upon this institution and give her a boon? If no better way is offered, let a free but judicious use of printer's ink be tried, and see what will be the result. [Lariat, Wabash College...
...upon his return in 1850 immediately began collecting material for the Greek dictionary. He put forth what was a sort of precursor to that work, 'A Glossary of Later and Byzantine Greek' in 1860. Alibone says of his contribution in this kind of learning, that "it was a peculiar boon to scholars and must occupy a place with the glossaries of Ducange and Charpentier." In 1860 he received the appointment to the professorship of Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern Greek which he held until his death. He again visited Greece in 1860. In 1870 he got out a subscription edition...
...Boston; but the poorer class has to choose between a cheap and nasty boarding-house and Memorial Hall, and so does not get that amount of nutrition which a young man in full physical and intellectual activity requires, whereas in well-qualified hands Memorial Hall might be a great boon to the student. At Cambridge, England, in consequence of complaints, some of the fellows of colleges gave the commissariat their most careful personal supervision, and with excellent result. Harvard might take example. It is a subject which, as Frederick the Great proved, is not beneath any one's attention...