Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this number is not likely to be hotably increased. It is an interesting fact that the University of Virginia must be regarded as the mother of the elective system in this country. From its foundation the students have been allowed entire freedom of choice in their studies, and except in the schools of law and medicine, there is essentially no prescribed course. The university is also open to all comers without the formality of examination; the rigorous mid-term and final lests being relied upon to keep the scasses weeded. It is another singular feature of the regime that, save...
...high prizes in any of the professions are not to be won without exhausting labor. We hear much talk about genius. All this is very well in its way, but the most practical definition of genius is, extraordinary capacity for labor. No world-wide greatness was ever achieved except where there has been a prodigious capacity for work...
...reported that the Glee Club will not assist the Cambridge Bicycle Club in their minstrel show, except so far as to allow them to use the Glee Club's rooms...
...putting our men to work that there has been nothing of news to write. However this week has seen the first move, and I give below all that has taken place and our outlook for a nine next year. All the men of last year's nine are here except Greene. Gunderson will be pitcher, Bassett catcher, Durfee 3d and Wadsworth short-stop, Seagraves center, with 1st and 2d bases and right and left fields unfilled. Murphy will be change pitcher. There are ten men under the captain's training now in one of the city private gymnasiums (we have...
...months, Oct. 1, 1879, to April 1, 1880, the University Boat Club paid the college $80.00, at the rate of 87 per cent on its cost of $2000.00. The University Boat Club has repaid to the college all sums advanced by the college for water rates and taxes, except $115.20 paid for taxes in Oct. 1876, and these items repaid are not included in either side of the previous statements. The college has never, to my knowledge, refused or neglected to make repairs when the need of repairs was made known, and has never received, so far as I know...