Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...statistics of the present senior class at Yale are out and the showing there made is certainly a fine one. The class records have been unusually good in every way, and even '84's success as "The Philosophical Class" has not been sufficient to dim the memories of the "High Stand Class of '83." The average expenses for the four years are given as follows: Freshman year, $863; sophomore year, $903; junior year, $994; senior year, $1,007, making the total average for the whole course $3,706, or a yearly average of $941. These figures are smaller than those...
...veins of silver ore, and then the last vein, which was rich gold ore. After splashing around in the mud, bumping our heads against the low ceiling formed by the rock, and collecting specimens, we returned to the shaft, where the small spot of blue sky overhead cast a dim light...
...suppose it is a necessary and indeed a useful thing for the college papers to maintain their traditional custom of annually discussing the evils of compulsory attendance at chapel. A fervent faith can doubtless see in the dim future the final realization of all our hopes in this matter, and therefore those of us who blindly grope, and have almost despaired of any such millennium, should without doubt do their utmost for the final abolition of these evil regulations by means of continual protest and energetic petition. The thought that a distant posterity will profit by our exertions, can fill...
...presidents of Yale and Harvard Universities and to the Smithsonian Institution, for the establishment of scholarships for poor students; another third has been left to the laboring poor of England and Italy. Harvard's third of a third of this estate is too far removed into the dim future to warrant any great congratulations...
...final decision of the question rests with the corporation. "Of the seven persons who form the corporation," says the Advertiser, "only two are thought to favor the medical education of women at Harvard." Co-education of any sort with us must now undoubtedly be but a dream for the dim future...