Word: ending
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SOPHOMORE who takes Italian I found cetera desunt written at the end of his examination-book, and replied to a friend's inquiry, that the first part of his book was a good deal marked up, but the instructor had written that the rest was decent...
WITH our term bills has come the usual notice in regard to college rooms. Several new regulations have been made which will probably have the effect of putting an end to the bad practice which has so long existed, of drawing for rooms without intending to use them, and selling them to those who are less fortunate in the allotment. By the old system all except the few who drew rooms were obliged either to pay a large bonus for the privilege of rooming inside the Yard, or else were obliged to room outside. This converted the allotment of rooms...
...after all, what is the end of a college paper? What are the editors trying to do? At first I thought that they contemplated moral reform and spiritual advancement among the students; but I find on experience, much to my sorrow, that the sad and humiliating fact is that they want to make the paper sell, and have few motives higher than to be able to make their books balance. To do this they must please as many as possible, to secure a large circulation. And so it seems as if the programme might be profitably left to them...
...general verdict is, and to this conclusion the writer is driven by the fate of several previously rejected essays on "Etruscan Philology," that people want to be amused, and take the papers chiefly for that end. Of course there are different tastes in amusement; for example, I should suppose that any one who could give such an inane opinion of one of the most delicate satires that has graced the college papers, as F. G. does of the "Religion of the Mound-Builders," would probably find his sense of humor gratified by a table of logarithms, while there are others...
...mismanagement, no crew is sent to the race, the enthusiasm of many men cools, and the class makes a poor show in after years. When the crew is unsuccessful the good men are often discouraged, and if the crew falls through, it is not generally until towards the end of Freshman year, and men who might have been good oars have not been tested in club crews, have lost their interest, and are disgusted with boating. In themselves Freshman races seem inexpedient...