Word: caste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this new rule, that escapade of the students, the coming boat race and the thousand and one occurrences that mark the daily life at any large college. Cambridge is no exception to the rule and may be looked upon as one large school, so general is the influence cast upon it by its many colleges. Few places are more ideal or better fitted for a large university than this same Cambridge, and it is thanks to the perspicuity of our ancestors that the University of Cambridge at the present date ranks among the first in the world. The fertile...
...strife between the King and the people became known and marked as a Puritan college. It is of this college, and its companion in the Puritan faith, Sidney Sussex, that Charles I said "They are the nurseries of Puritans." Oliver Cromwell graduated from Sydney Sussex, and the cast of his features taken after his death, of which our own Gore Hall possesses a copy, is kept here...
...country for two or three towns to maintain one high school adequately equipped, rather than for each one to maintain a weak and poorly equipped high school. The only thing that stands in the way of such a union is local jealousy, and the sooner that is cast aside the better...
Yesterday was municipal election day in Boston, and many students went to town to cast their votes...
Although the manifesto of the Athletic Committee has cast a gloom over our intercollegiate boating prospects, the interest taken in the preparation of the Class Races in May seems to be as great as ever. The rowing room at the gymnasium is constantly occupied from four until half-past five o'clock in the afternoon by the several eights, or rather tens (for there are ten rowing machines,) of the junior, sophomore and freshman crews. There are at present in training for these crews, fifty-three men, all of whom have not rowed before. After Christmas probably thirty men will...