Word: ending
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been realized. As far as can be judged by the returns up to the present time, the system has this year been used with much more license than it was last year or the year before, and there is now great danger that it will be suspended at the end of this year. The benefits arising from voluntary recitations have often enough been discussed; every one knows that, when used with the discretion which the average Senior is supposed to possess, the system has very great advantages; its abolition would be a retrograde step, and would be much lamented...
...case the next race be rowed there. They were most hospitably entertained by several prominent citizens, and taken in a tug over the proposed course. This course is perfectly straight for six miles, and is sheltered from the prevailing winds by a point of land at its lower end, on which the grand stand would be erected. From the stand the whole course could be seen; and, moreover, on one side of the river for the entire distance there is a carriage-road, and on the other a railroad on which a train of platform cars would be run, during...
...this shall be for us the end...
...pipe of peace. After this ceremony was over the whole class of thirty-two shook hands. It was one of the most senseless performances the writer ever witnessed; the class standing in line and shaking hands with No. 1, No. 2, and so on in order until the end of the game; but it was a fitting close for such a remarkable Class...
...mental discipline," we are inclined to quote Macaulay: "'Discipline' of the mind! Say, rather, starvation, confinement, torture, annihilation! I feel myself becoming a personification of algebra, a living trigonometrical canon, a walking table of logarithms. All my perceptions of elegance and beauty gone, or at least going. At the end of the term my brain will be 'as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage.'" Many, I fancy, can sympathize with him when he says he got "a headache daily, without acquiring one practical truth or beautiful image in return...