Word: ending
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Well, nobody looks at us girls, since the Junioresses from Cancan 15 have taken charge of the musical exercises. If I see you trying to catch the end coryphee's eye again, I'll drop...
...Executive Committee have given abundant evidence of their ability to wrestle with difficult problems in mental arithmetic. For instance, given three judges and two ends of a piece of tape, problem, to place the judges so that the two ends of the tape shall be supported. The Committee have solved this by a master stroke, by placing two judges at one end of the tape, and the third at the other; but it seems to us that they have left out of consideration the feelings of the third judge. Isolated at one end of the tape, he is obliged...
...Parker Fellowship (annual income, $ 800) will become vacant at the end of the current Academic year. Application must be in writing, and addressed to Professor J. M. Peirce, Secretary of the Academic Council. No application will be received after April...
...called scholarships is not a charity. The arguments of "T." on this point are somewhat plausible, but they seem to us unsound. We cannot see how the assistance given by the founders of scholarships to the holders of them can be called "a mutual helping toward a common end" any more than any other form of charity...
...professor of dancing." Rather startled, I asked if I could see the building. He answered in the affirmative, and led the way into the large hall. I looked in vain for the apparatus. The floor was carefully waxed, and around the walls were sofas and chairs. At the northern end of the hall was a platform, upon which were several music-stands. My meditations were interrupted by my guide. "This is the hall in which the students formerly exercised; but when athletics became so very unpopular, the Faculty, in response to the universal wish, converted it into a dancing-hall...