Word: closing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...second an attack upon them. Horace in his epistles appears as a practical epicurean in middle life. Persius - universally regarded as one of the hardest of Roman authors - is a young stoic of the time of Nero. The course will not be made intentionally difficult, but it will require close attention and care. It may be usefully combined with courses in philosophy, and all Latin 7 is the advanced division of 4. All the remarks made above with reference to 4 apply to it a fortiori. Latin 10 is adequately described on the scheme of study...
...four-oared race will, without doubt, be close and interesting. Weld and Holworthy will have a sharp tussle for the first place, and Holyoke and Matthews will probably not be far behind. Both the Weld crews are remarkably good, and Holworthy has been carefully coached, so that she is now in excellent condition...
...arrangements were, accordingly, partially made, when I received a letter from Mr. Avery saying that the feeling of Yale was strongly opposed to playing the games anywhere but at Saratoga, or, at any rate, before the close of the term. I wrote back saying that we had gone so far here, that I did not wish to change; that, in fact, we could not change. Since that time I have received no definite answer as to whether they intend to play us this year or not. By the statement in one of the papers, the other day, that the Yale...
...annuals are so close upon us that we want to say a few words in regard to a suggestion which has been made concerning them. If a week could be left just before the beginning of the annuals, the cramming for that dreaded ordeal could be done with more profit as regards marks, and with more safety as regards health, than is possible now. Men will read over the work of the year just before examination, in spite of whatever may be said or done, and they will be forced to "cram" as long as the present system of work...
...plaid breakfast-jacket, large checked trousers, silk socks and pumps, only stopping now and then to light a caporal, he will tell you long yarns of his experiences at the Mabille, the Students' Balls, the Argylle Rooms, or the Alhambra; and when you get up to go, he will close his remarks by deprecating the utter dulness of America...