Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...anything but congratulation. The Clark professorship is the first, and, so far as we know, the only endowment for the study of English at either of the older universities. There are chairs of Anglo-Saxon, certainly; but the connection between Anglo-Saxon and modern English literature is not very close, and our Anglo-Saxon scholars, for the most part, have very rightly devoted themselves to comparative philology rather than to literary criticism. In Mr. Stephen Cambridge has secured as a professor one of the most distinguished men of letters of the day, and one who has a reputation at once...
...cash balance but is made up largely of stock, fixtures, etc., and that the actual cash gains of the year were very small. I do not mean to imply that the society is not financially sound, but merely to suggest that the business has been run on a close margin and that the members have had the benefit of all the profits. But I fear students do not wholly appreciate the conveniences of the Co-operative. Many impositions on the part of other dealers have been corrected since the society was established, and in this way it is really...
...rich in interior furnishings, forming essentially a home for the society members. Here the leisure hours of every day are passed; the piano and organ stand invitingly open; the convenient sleepy-hollow lures one to recline at ease while he reads a novel from the well-filled book-case close at hand. Here the evenings are whiled away in pleasant chat on college matters or in a beguiling game of whist; and here at various times the students, a choice number, with a few invited guests, devote the evening to a reception or a german. In this way a fraternal...
...same examinations as the freshmen entering the college are compelled to pass. The lady students can study at any school or at their houses if they desire, and will be allowed to choose their own course of study. The young ladies who pass the final examination at the close of five years' study will be given a certificate of the college...
...School library will here-after close...