Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...there's no use in denying it, we are cliquish; even Doggy can't prove the contrary, though he says there's no reason why Quiet, whom no one ever notices, should n't enjoy college; and we have a great many cliques, and very narrow ones. In each class there are one or two swell cliques, devoted to lawn-tennis and clothes; an athletic set, who spend hours in exercise of various sorts, and the rest of their time in feeling each other's muscles, and reading the "Spirit of the Times"; a studious crowd, to which...
...various localities. Mr. Bennett has engaged him for the photographing on the great Polar Sea Expedition, and the Messrs. Harper and Brothers accord him a similar rank to Thomas Nast in his department of art. When foreign celebrities are to be taken, Mr. Pach is usually called upon, even by other photographers, at least to secure the negatives, - an unmistakable compliment to his skill...
...Even female education is to have a place at Oxford. The lectures of Ruskin, Max Muller, and others have long been crowded with women, and now a separate college is to be founded for them, for which an endowment is now being raised. The Broad or rationalistic party, and the High Church party, between whom the competition at Oxford now seems to lie, have united in advocating this measure...
...Latin classics; must translate a short English passage into Latin prose, answer some questions on grammar, show a fair familiarity with arithmetic, and know something of Euclid or algebra. But if he possess special excellence in any one of these studies he is pretty certain to be admitted, even though he be weak in the rest. Oxford has a great tendency to foster special abilities...
...paper that we shall publish, as soon as possible, a large second edition. Justice will thus be done to our subscribers, and all who desire will be able to obtain a copy of the H. A. A.'s constitution. While we regret that any person should have been even temporarily inconvenienced in obtaining his paper, we cannot help rejoicing at so evident a proof of the rapidly increasing interest in athletic sports...