Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...match between the Shooting Club and the Jamaica Plain Gun Club which was to have been shot last Saturday will come off next Thursday. The teams will consist of seven men, each man to shoot at 20 pigeons...
Departing from its original meaning of ability, Facultas had come to denote a common course of teaching and then came to be applied to the common bond of union between the professors of the same branch of teaching. In 1254 the University in its famous letter to Pope Alexander IV says, "that it was the outcome of the four Faculties of Arts or Philosophy, Theology, Laws and Medicine...
...provisional list of examinations which is published to-day resembles very much those of the preceding years; it is only pleasant things that come as surprises, disagreeable events are always foreseen - casting darkest shadows before...
...that we are, this last term of our college year is always a sweet springtide of happiness. The time of winter, of snow and hail, cold winds and frosts is all past. This Easter vacation has put a long distance between all that and the present fair days. Now come the delicious siestas after dinner under the trees of the yard, while we smoke philosophically and listen to the glee club. Now is the tennis, the ball games, the boating and the cool winds blowing into our open windows. Ah! ye gods! why can this not last always...
Again, in some courses, the laboratory work must come on certain days, which is hard on those who, knowing nothing about it beforehand, have arranged most of their work for those days. This mal-arrangement is generally remedied by endless changes and petitions to the faculty, which would be saved by a little knowledge beforehand...