Word: comely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...petitions have recently been started by the students of the college which certainly deserve the fullest consideration of the faculty and corporation when they make up the curriculum for the coming college year. The first one requests the establishment of a half-course in elocution, and states in its premises the reasons for such a step; the second one begs for a half course in elementary astronomy, without mathematics. If the curriculum is to be extended for the year 1888-89 there is no good ground for denying the petitions, especially as upwards of forty signatures have been placed...
PUDDING THEATRICALS.- Principals at 2; chorus at 4. Principals and chorus at 7. Everyone must come except the pirates...
...this country. Secondly, it was foolish for the United States to expend $4,500,000 a year to keep a guard along the frontier to prevent smuggling. Thirdly, the troublesome fishery question would be entirely gained. F. B's. Williams, '88, for the negative, declared that Canada would not come in of her own accord, that there would always be a sectional line between it and the rest of the United States. The unity of this country would be broken. Reciprocity with Canada in return for fishing privileges is by far the best way to deal with the question...
PUDDING THEATRICALS.- Bridesmaids at 3: other choruses (except pirates) at 4; principals at 2 and 5.45. Everyone must come to be measured...
...divisions of the population should be closed as much as possible; but the inevitable tendency of an act giving the public authorities the right to supervise private schools would be to widen the breach to an alarming extent. Whenever the election of a school committee happened to come up, everybody would go to the polls knowing that the approval of parochial schools would come before the committee then elected, and hence the religious question would always be a dominant element in the election. A less desirable issue could hardly be brought up in a city or town election when there...