Word: explains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college authorities must relieve the students from all responsibility or care in the matter, and conduct the hall as they do dormitories. They must make a college affair of it, if we may use an expression that will be readily understood. It would be useless for us to explain how easy it would be for the authorities to do this; how an especial officer should be appointed, with a fair salary, to attend exclusively to the interests of the commons; or how well they could avoid the errors into which we have fallen. Understand us, that we find no fault...
...marks were given out yesterday in English 1 and 2. Prof. Child took occasion to explain and defend his system of marking...
Recitatione Latina hominorum viridum. Prof. - "Well, Mr. B., explain that reference in the next line. What do you know about Euterpe?" H. V. - "Nothing, sir, further than that he was a celebrated musician!" - [Clamose snickerunt omnes...
...last lecture to the freshman class in Greek Etymology, Prof. White took occasion to explain the experiment the faculty are making this year in the system of lectures and conferences for freshmen, and to comment upon its progress thus far. Undoubtedly, if more frequent opportunity of such a sort were taken by members of the faculty to explain and discuss with their classes, and especially with the freshman classes, the status and relations of the various courses and methods of work, a far more cordial and franker feeling would come to subsist between instructors and pupils, and a clearer notion...
Observation in experimental physic by my goody while taking up the ashes: "I thinks the ashes flies worse when they're warm than when they're cold, as I notices it." [Fact.] Who can explain...