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Word: evens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...observances of proper decorum in recitations. Those friends who begin to pack up their books and "grab" for their hats some three or four minutes before the close of the hour might learn a little forbearance if the instructor should do likewise and make a rush for the door even before he had completed the last sentence of his lecture. However this expedient might prove futile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/14/1887 | See Source »

...published yesterday an appeal for subscriptions from the members of the committee in charge of the Sunday Evening Meetings, and a statement of the amount required was given. A very small sum from every man in college would soon mount up, and every man who does help even with a mile will have the pleasure of feeling that he has helped carry on the movement so earnestly begun. Here, indeed, is a chance for true charity. If a man cannot give much, let him give little. The committee, with excellent taste and judgment, have so arranged matters that the amount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/14/1887 | See Source »

...extremely popular man, and when he became president the students always felt that he was on their side. His was a large and generous idea, and in all of his published work he has deserved well of his country, but the idea of the practical teaching of history, even of America, was yet to evolve from the tutorial system of Harvard College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Study of History at Harvard. | 12/14/1887 | See Source »

...make friends with them. But why should we allow a state of things to exist at all, which infuses bitterness into the lives of many of our fellow-students? It need take no great sacrifice on our part to be genial and kind to worthy fellow-students, even if they are poor and of a rough exterior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 12/13/1887 | See Source »

...second of the University receptions given by President and Mrs. Dwight was held in Dwight Hall, Tuesday evening and was even more successful than the first one. The number of students and townspeople in attendance was very large and the affair was much enjoyed by those present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Letter. | 12/13/1887 | See Source »

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