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Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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THE following is the order of events of the H. A. A. next Friday: 1. half-mile run; 2. mile walk; 3. one hundred yards' dash; 4. running broad jump; 5. one mile run; 6. hurdle race (120 yards); 7. one fourth mile run; 8. potato race; 9. three-legged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

The grounds for this neglect are, that the object of the study is the interpretation of Shakespeare, and that elocution has nothing to do with it As has already been pointed out, we are talking, not of elocution or dramatic reading, but simply of intelligent reading, and this certainly has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTELLIGENT READING. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

As will be seen in our "Correspondence," just complaint is once more made about the marks in English. It seems very hard that something cannot be done to insure fairer marking. The instructor seems deaf to all remonstrance, and after each examination warnings are so numerous that to receive one...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

To compel Seniors to observe the rule which forbids any conflict of hours in the choice of electives seems to be in direct opposition to the principles of voluntary recitation; for surely, if a student is qualified to decide whether he will attend recitations, he is also qualified to decide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

MUTUAL admiration is all very well, and there is no possible objection to the Courant's complimenting the Yale Lit., only it is carrying the matter a step too far, to quote a stanza of a translation from Alfred de Musset, and criticise it (favorably) as original. Though translations are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 5/17/1878 | See Source »

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