Word: closed
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...dying for a smoke, and as I have n't any tobacco of my own, I think I'll close and go over to my Freshman's to roll a cigarette...
When dusky shadows nightly close around...
...course would tend to increase the interest in the matches, and the expenses would not be greater than those attending the first plan, while the receipts would be much larger. In this case the Nine would have to remain in Cambridge for two or three weeks after the close of College, when a fine opportunity for practice would be obtained...
...youth should be quite ready to enter college at the age of sixteen," and with students of sixteen or eighteen, the temptations to idleness and dissipation can only be counteracted by a system compelling attendance at recitations. Examinations at the close of the year will not check these evils; they cannot make up for the want of a weekly and daily training, and without such training they are liable to the fatal evil of cramming. Moreover, if attendance on recitations is voluntary, instructors will content themselves with giving lectures, and will care little whether their pupils receive benefit...
...first year of the existence of this great blessing to the undergraduates is now drawing near its close, it may perhaps be a fitting occasion for offering a few remarks upon its management and general condition. In the first place, the amount of gas-light shed upon the Boston newspapers at the end of the room is sadly deficient. It is probably the belief of the managers that this class of reading loses its interest long before there is need of artificial light upon it; but the majority of those who visit the reading-room in the earlier part...