Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young lady, in a class studying physiology, made answer to a question, that in seven years a human body became entirely changed, so that not a particle which was in it at the commencement of the period would remain at the close of it. "Then, Miss Lisle," said the young tutor, "in seven years you will cease to be Miss Lisle?" "Why, yes, sir; I hope so," said she very modestly, looking at the floor.-[Dartmouth...
...examination period draws to a close, the representation of Harvard men at the theatres increases...
...means the least of which was the experience that everyone knew, not Smith of '86, but Ed. We asked after another Tufts friend. Our host stepped to the door and cried up the stairs for some one to tell Sam to come down. The students are on close terms with the professors, and are very intimate with each other. We were shown the "head grind," "the strongest man in college," the man who boarded himself on fifty cents a week, the chemical labratory, the "Quad," the various objects of interest that crowd upon the visitor at Tufts, and finally left...
...second half year of the Technology began yesterday. Then a vacation of over a week in duration is given after the close of their semi-annual examinations...
...practice of the crews of running in the open air, during the cold days of the winter months, seems to us extremely objectionable. Some trainers are averse to any exercise in a temperature below fifty or sixty degrees; but, as the air in the gymnasium is very close and fatiguing to men on the running track, our crews may not find it beneficial to follow this rule. The great abuse, however, of the refreshing and wholesome out door exercise lies in taking it when the thermometer atands below zero. On the coldest day this winter, when few persons ventured across...