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Word: collegee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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Of the old authors, Aristophanes is my favorite; his "Clouds," for instance. I think if I were to attend college for fifty years, and it were possible, I would annually elect this consummate work of Grecian literature. Its chastity of style, the spirit in which it was written, cannot fail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLEA FOR THE CLASSICS. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

And so I love the Classics. I venerate the ancients, because their knowledge of nature was superior to ours, their science more advanced, their ideas of the human relations broader and purer, and, finally, because my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather venerated and studied them before me. "With a loud...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLEA FOR THE CLASSICS. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

MR. GEORGE S. SILSBEE, stroke of the Junior crew, recently had the misfortune to dislocate his arm, which accident rendered it necessary for him to withdraw for a time from College. It is very much to be regretted that he will be unable to fill his place in the crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

NOT long since, an article was published which discussed the present system of college penalties. At that time almost every student was delighted with the near prospect of voluntary recitations and the abolition of morning prayers. Then it was the custom to praise the Faculty for their liberal opinions in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

The season has passed, however, in which privates can be given for handling snow; still, numbers every Tuesday visit the Dean to receive punishment for their misdeeds. Our police authorities are quick to espy any man who carries a bat or ball through the yard. From the time he comes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

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