Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...incurred in repairing the damages done by the scratching of matches is of course a matter of no consideration; but the thinking man may reflect on the possibility of having to light his cigarette in the wind and storm if he can find nothing to supply the necessary friction except the vestibule walls of Memorial...
...Garden of the Gods, within sight of the college grounds, some immense Saurian reptiles, one of them being over one hundred feet long. They will be added to the college cabinet. Colorado College is the place for students in poor health. The sun shines there nearly all the time, except nights, and the air is wonderfully stimulating...
...Pierian, could not be carried out. In some way or other more money must be raised for the crew than the subscription-list, as it now stands, seems likely to furnish. The amount subscribed on this list (which will be found in the Brevity column) by all classes, except the Sophomores, is below the share which it is customary to allot to the class in proportion to their burdens. Of the whole amount required the Seniors are assessed twelve per cent., the Juniors and Sophomores twenty-five per cent., and the Freshmen thirty-eight per cent. According to the estimate...
...tended to increase the popularity and stability of the Association. He regards the weak point in the organization to be the liberty of withdrawing from the Hall on a full week's notice, and he proposes as a check that any member who should withdraw at any time except the end of one of the three periods for which term bills are made out should be charged for the remaining time one third of the cost for board. Now what to the President seems weakness must seem to the students strength; and in the liberty to withdraw is the only...
...idle fancy, for you might have pulled that tail with all your might and never produced the least result, unless, perhaps, you pulled the poor animal over. Need I say, then, that he was a very safe family horse? The small boy drove him without peril, except once when he was coaxed into a trot, going down hill, and directly fell down, breaking both shafts. Even then little damage was done, excepting the loss of the shafts and of a few more gray hairs...