Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...education of women, is receiving the very careful consideration of the Corporation. Heretofore, it may be said that the matter has never seriously been discussed. Now it has had a hearing, and a respectful hearing. Thus much may be said: there is not now, and for some time to come - perhaps never - will there be an endorsement of such a plan of the co-education of the sexes as prevails in some of the colleges. Probably, certificates of successful examination of young women in the studies required for admission into the university will be given to applicants on the payment...
...FURBER, for the Com.There will be an important meeting of all candidates for the freshman eleven today, at 3.45 in the basement of the gymnasium. All are requested to come and see that others come...
...excellent thing. At Cornell, they have a large, well furnished, well heated room, containing several long tables covered with "exchanges" graciously donated by the Era. In fact, a place in which the men can read, smoke, talk, and enjoy themselves for the short loafing periods which necessarily come to every man during some portion of the day. It will be readily seen that the reading room of the library is no substitute for such a place...
...senior and sophomore classes are to be heartily congratulated on the balance sheets exhibited by the gentlemen who have had in charge the financial management of their respective class crews. In these days of enromous expenditures and dismal deficits a class which is able even to approach solvency has come to be regarded as a sort of collegiate prodigy, of whose deeds coming undergraduates will read with wonder...
This is a gift that Harvard may well appreciate, and the significance of its having come from across the Atlantic should by no means be overlooked. All like gifts, aiming at special and advanced study, are always valuable to a University. If but few in number, they tend perhaps to be an aggravation; but if many, they cannot fail to create an incentive for higher study and indirectly to raise the entire intellectual tone of the college or university possessing them...