Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...materially modified in the announcement for next year, which is to be published hereafter. At present, students of three sorts are in attendance. On entering the University, if the student meets the requirements, he is at once admitted to full membership; but if he is not prepared in certain branches, his matriculation may, with the consent of the Faculty, be deferred for a reasonable time. Special students are admitted on showing their ability to make a good use of the advantages which the University offers. Among the requirements are the following, not necessary at Harvard; in mathematics, solid geometry, trigonometry...
...College to decrease them. Expensive rooms are provided for the wealthy, and comfortable, but plain ones for the poorer students. It frequently happens, too, that some of the best rooms in the Yard, - as some in Hollis and Stoughton, - are let at very low prices. Thus it is certain that every student can get a good room here in proportion to his means; but those who are willing only to pay $70 cannot expect as good accommodations as those who pay $300. There is a class of writers for the College papers who seize upon some imaginary wrong of this...
...desire to see one's writings in print, and it is much more easily gratified. To be sure, it is not every one that, Narcissus-like, can fall so deeply in love with his own likeness as to be wasted away by the passion; but we all find a certain pleasure in gazing upon ourselves in miniature, and we all, sooner or later, seek to gratify our wish. To the ordinary mortal there is very little choice between the photographer's chair and the dentist's, and the truth of this fact is stamped upon nine out of ten photographs...
...hope that they will not - I must beg of you to politely decline them. They can't help you, and they may hurt you; for membership involves a habit of constant prevarication, which is anything but salutary in its effects. At the same time these secret organizations have a certain amount of power; and as long as they do not interfere with you, you had better not interfere with them, - technical interference being the public mention of their existence. If they openly offend you, of course you must not calmly submit; but my experience of them is that they...
...interesting volume. And really, any one who will take his light reading in this way will find much which is not only instructive, but amusing as well, - some things, indeed, which would make a worthy theme for the Nation's satirical pen, which lately "did up" so well a certain institution in Tennessee. The first occasion for surprise the Catalogue-reader meets is, that, after the Faculty have been enumerated, the corps of College officers should be swelled by such names as those of the Superintendent of the Gymnasium, an Assistant in the Library, and the Steward of Memorial Dining...