Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Gentlemen intending to tutor with me in Mathematics, Physics or Chemistry, can consult me at my room. 27 Hollis, from 4 to 6 every afternoon except Thursday and Saturday. George W. Sawin...
...speaker grew eloquent as he discussed the unhappy condition of Ireland. The trouble there is not in a bad land system, but in the absence of every industry except. agriculture. She, too, had manufactures once, but England strangled them, when the potato famine came, the effects were terrible. The population had nothing to which they could turn their hands, starvation was the result. The absence of alternative occupation is the true cause of the poverty of Ireland. A country which is without some alternative occupations cannot create them in the face of open competition. Protection, she must have. The lecture...
...majority, such a glance will give us cause to rejoice that there are still a few weeks before the examinations in which we can endeavor to make up for the time which has not been devoted to our studies. The new year brings little gladness to the students' hearts, except by anticipation. This is for us the busiest time of the year. Returning from a pleasant vacation, we are plunged at once into the trials and tribulations of an examination period. The secular and college New Year's Days do not correspond. The one begins on the first of January...
...ashes more hopelessly than ever Pompeii was. Our goodies are not "too good," but "satis bonxexigue," which being translated meaneth, "just good enough,"-and few of them reach even that exalted standard. Now, by the gods of Gaul, look at this! 'Gas,' $13-why, I've burned nothing except my student lamp this whole term! And what's this? 'Board at Harvard Dining Association,' $54,-well, that's rather contradicted by the next, 'Extras,' $25. If I had stuck to the regular feed I couldn't have eaten all those extras, so it seems to me they ought to wipe...
...possible to combine with these a thorough study of the ancient world? The bad results of recent attempts to accomplish this in Germany justify Professor Paulsen in denying this possibility, and consequently he does not hesitate to exclude all classical study except the elements of Latin from the curriculum of the Gymnasium. In its place he puts a broader and more detailed treatment of history in all its branches, a more thorough study of the German language and literature, an elementary course in philosophy, comprising ethics. logic, psychology, and politics. Natural science and mathematics would also gain by the proposed...