Word: downs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Coming fresh from the untutored wilds of the West, South, or that geographically uncertain and ever-receding location which goes under the non-committal name of "Down East," a slight touch of indigenous brogue in a Freshman is excusable - for three months or so. A generous critic might allow him...
IN some book on etiquette it is laid down as a canon that one ought never to invite to a dinner-party gentlemen of only one profession. If there are none but clergymen present, conversation will turn on theology; if lawyers make up the party, their chat will be of...
THE Library Bulletins will be out the beginning of next week. Those who have not yet put down their names for them are requested to do so as early as possible.
I had expected to discover the poet by his long hair, but this is no mark of poetic genius at Orono. They might have all been poets if this had been the only qualification. It would be unjust to him to attempt to reproduce the sentiments his poem contained. There...
In reading last week's Advocate, I met with an earnest remonstrance against the neglect of mathematics among the undergraduates, coupled with an appeal to the instructors to make it more attractive; and it seemed to me that the causes of the unpopularity of our advanced mathematics, as laid down...