Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...each other that whatever affects the one must in some degree affect the other, and that two dissimilar sensations in the body would produce similar conditions of the mind will scarcely be asserted. Whatever we eat, then, must affect the mind, and each article of food must produce a certain state of mind...
...first practice in writing which is necessary to wear away the newness of their pens and make them run freely. Then the themes and forensics are sufficiently numerous, in the last three years, to allow the student on the average only four weeks to compose each one, which is certainly by no means too long for those who have acquired no great facility in arranging their ideas. These are all carefully examined by able Professors, who give their opinions upon the merits or demerits of each essay to its author, so that no one is without help in discovering...
...Boston Herald. I have no wish to join issue upon every particular statement of the article in question, but it strikes me that in this case, as in the other, injustice is done to a popular favorite. As a news-teller the Herald is unequalled in Boston, and certain editorials occur to me that would do credit to any paper. I might refer to one entitled "An Oriental Lesson," in a Sunday Herald of recent date. Its stand on the currency question is certainly of the soundest, and in general its editorial department will compare favorably with any Boston paper...
STUDENTS are warned in these harvest days of the Pocos against trusting a certain cock-eyed Poco of fluent speech who has been generally and not honorably known in College as Livingston...
...requirements for a degree should be a certain number of examinations on required and elective studies, and students could take a degree whenever they had passed all their examinations, whether in three or five years. All students must obtain over 40% to avoid a condition; an average of 50% for a degree; over 60% on each examination for an "A" division; over 70% as an average for the Rank List; 75% to be a candidate for honors for an Essay at Commencement; 80% for a Disquisition; 85% for a Dissertation; 90% for an Oration; 95% for a "Summa cum laude...