Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following men will be on Cambridge Common, this (Thursday) afternoon at 3 o'clock sharp in uniform: Churchill, Spaulding, Carpenter, Codman, Thorndyke, Wren, Cummin, Rankin, Alllen, Childs...
...fact that college journalism is not common in Europe will make the exhibit at the Paris Exposition of American college journals of unusual interest...
...members of the club are earnest, as we believe them to be, they can hardly fail to accomplish their objects-partially at any rate. Their purposes are in a way co-operative,- to help each other in the study of the subject in which they all have a common interest. They hope also to bring before the University the need of better appliances in the electrical department, by the aid of which a man may gain as complete an education in electricity as in any other department of the University...
Professor Hastings of the Yale Sheffield Scientific School has succeeded in so combining lenses that the chromatic aberration of the common telescope is reduced one twentieth. The invention will prove an invaluable aid to astronomical photography...
...unbelievers find nothing to attack because they find no one creed upheld and championed. The ministers of the University preach Christ, not theology. There is an agreement in condemnation of all cant and austerity; all exaggeration, undue emotionality and misrepresentation of feeling. The attitude towards religion is one of common sense and concession; and an attitude so respectful cannot but inspire reverence in those who understand...