Word: exceptionalism
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...LITANY service is held by the St. Paul's Society at 6.45 P. M., daily through Lent, except on Saturdays and Sundays. A lecture may be expected every Monday evening...
...obtaining oftentimes good rank, still never have experienced a sense of personal responsibility or manhood, or had a really sensible thought about his future. Measuring the world by the college standards, they naturally make false estimates of its requirements; not considering that any results obtained here are really insignificant except in so far as they prepare for what is to come...
...Wheelock, as Romeo, was tolerable. Tybalt and Paris were as amusing as usual. The scenery used was the same old set, which the management of this theatre think the correct thing for every play, except the "Black Crook" and "Streets of New York...
...have recently had occasion to listen to various discussions on this peculiar kind of evidence. We are sorry to say there prevails at present a custom, which is sanctioned by nothing except its age, of regarding the statement of a student as false, while of a graduate, no matter if only of six months' standing, the direct contrary is assumed. In other words, if a student be requested to make a clear statement of his case, and if it be substantiated by two or three others, it is all considered as negative testimony, and is entirely overturned...