Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...England colleges, in a lecture delivered in this city last Sunday, said : "Here then is the consequences in the worst possible form of it." And again : "Not only is this so manifested as that philosophers see it." He also spoke of India as "a province that is not profitable except there shall be the cultivation of opinion." He was probably in a condition similar to that of the actor who knew his part so well that he forgot...
...three or four years at most, and who were regarded as having finished their education, who in fact considered themselves educated to a degree of proficiency beyond which further study were superfluous. In China there is no fixed time for graduating, no limit to one's collegiate course, except he live beyond the age allotted the human race. If a student graduate from any college of a certain grade in ten years, he is considered a prodigy. We have frequently seen in China men of fifty years of age, the fathers of families, still attending college, diligently seeking to obtain...
...become sufficiently prominent politically to warrant the idea that it was given for any other reason than for his eminence as a lawyer and his intellectual right to such a title. Indeed, we are proud to believe that the degrees of Williams have rarely been given except in recognition of merit, and that no venality or desire of currying favor with influential men can be attributed to our alma mater. Governor Butler has said that he regards with the "deepest sensibility" the honor shown him by this college, and it is but natural that he should show his feeling...
...voted, That the faculty see no satisfactory reason for selecting speakers except from such as are candidates for a degree, and that in making selections, as all the candidates cannot speak, in their opinion the most practicable method is according to the principles stated in their action of February 26, namely, that appointments be given according to the student's record of general scholarship, her literary ability and her conduct during her college course...
...college rooms invites attention to some effort to remedy this lack, until some generous patron has given us a new dormitory. Everyone has noticed that our oldest hall, Massachusetts, has long been given to vacancy and examinations, no use being made of it all, practically, except on rare occasions. The use of this hall as a dormitory was discontinued with the building of new halls some ten years ago in which sufficient accommodations were provided for all the students then here. With the advent of Sever Hall, its importance as furnishing examination rooms was very much diminished...