Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...possible, and fixing it without regard to the day of the week on which Christmas happened to come. Our recess is from four to twelve days shorter than with the majority of the institutions for higher education in this country. Those of us who live west of Chicago cannot possibly get home by Christmas day unless we start before college closes, nor can we get back to Cambridge in time for the opening of college exercises, unless we start several days before New Year's. It seems to me that the time has come for our Faculty to recognize...
...want no society of philologists or of literary antiquarians; but, with the growing interest in English literature, inside and outside of the college, with the men we have whose knowledge of it is broad and accurate, with the advantages such a society would bring, one cannot but think that an organization devoted to English literature would supply a want which at some time or other many men have felt. Is it not worth while to attempt something however small...
...matter of reproach that we do not wish to do our work in a fragmentary manner - and fragmentary it must be, if we cannot find the reserved books, or if some other man finds them before us? It is a matter of reproach that we sit in our rooms - aye, in an easy chair, and read our history as a connected whole, working from the beginning - cause and result - and not as ninety nine cases out of a hundred we must have done with the topic reading: - working up the result and leaving the cause till next week...
Unsuccessful poems cannot be returned...
Professor Lanciani closed his interesting lecture with a series of illustrations tracing the river from its entrance into the immortal city to the point where it plows out into the surrounding campagna. The inexcusable act of some one of the audience in disturbing the lecture cannot be too greatly deplored or too severely condemned. Some step should be taken to avoid such disgraceful occurrences...