Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contributor to a recent number of the Yale News advocates that a congress be established at that college. Such a congress would, in general, afford very much the same opportunities for debate and discussion that Harvard men now enjoy in the Union. This proposal which is made at Yale is but one of the many with which our college papers all over the country are filled. To-day there seems to be a sort of fever in our American colleges for starting congresses, houses of commons, and the like. The formation of such debating societies, which shall keep the students...
...past years there has been more or less complaint concerning the delay shown by some of the instructors in their examination returns. It seems that this year we are to enjoy an unexpected celerity on the part of the examiners. The marks in several courses have already been posted, and there is every evidence that the marks in other courses will soon be given out. While we can easily appreciate the difficulty under which some instructors labor in consequence of the great size of their sections, we trust that they will feel called upon to make an extra effort...
...never would be. Its history was rapidly reviewed and the leading part its students had taken in all great National movements. At its close, Rev. Thomas Van Ness made some humorous remarks on the various characteristics of Harvard, ironically referring to those 'fresh water colleges' which did not enjoy the advantages of an old and heavily-endowed school. This brought out a bright reply from Judge Wilbur F. Stone, to the effect that most of the statesmen and men of affairs had come from interior colleges. Other speeches taking up the general line of thought that men equipped with...
Many students on their way to Fresh Pond to enjoy the bracing effect of a quiet afternoon's skate have doubtless noticed along Lake View Avenue a large, square, brick building, with massive granite columns in front. This structure, known as the Cambridge Water Works, was commenced in 1872, completed a year later, and together with the machinery, boilers, and a long narrow extension in the rear, cost the city about $2,000,000. A subterannean conduit runs from the build to Fresh Pond, through which the water flows and fills three deep stone wells in the cellar...
...wild, wild West: "The girls would enjoy coasting more if Yearsley would fix a place for their feet on his sled...