Word: call
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...disposed of at second-hand bookstores, or handed down to those who come after us in the hard road to learning; but every one retains a few, with perhaps a comment here and there on the text or the professor, if not for their intrinsic value, at least to call to mind in after years these hours of recitation, dragging so heavily as they pass. If, however, we collect no books, during our four years at Harvard, except the interlined Euripides or Juvenal, or the well-worn Philosophy, and gather no other works, either in ancient or modern languages...
...Italian, 6 Greek, and 5 Phil. (ethics) call...
...lead us to envy the system there in vogue. To an unprejudiced mind it might also seem that the time had passed when a self-constituted oligarchy should be able to exert such a repressive influence on the lower classes as to make a man fear to call his soul his own through dread of "spoiling his chances" of election to these societies...
...call attention to an advertisement in another column of the well-known caterer, Alfred Wilkins, who has removed his business from Boston to Cambridge. Personal experience of his ability as a caterer warrants us in giving him a strong recommendation...
...general rule, that the various themes which meet our eyes apply directly or indirectly to college rules, college customs. This certainly ought to be expected, from the nature of these papers. I do not wish even to argue that this is not perfectly right; but I should like to call attention to the fact that a certain class of articles are not as a general rule popular, although their character might at first lead one to expect otherwise. I refer to humorous productions...