Word: expression
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Memorial would be closed, it seemed for a while as if a panic had seized upon those who up to this time have thrown their fortunes with the hall. One thought of the old proverb, that rats forsake a sinking vessel, when on all sides one heard the men express their determination to leave. To such we would give the advice of Horace Greely to the giddy youth about to marry, "Don't." If the hall is once closed, when once we have been compelled to submit to the extortions of Cambridge boarding-house keepers, to undergo the miseries...
...Mary D. Haskell was killed by an express train in West Somerville yesterday...
...good crew her papers take particular pains to make us believe that it is a very poor one. In fact, they are willing to do almost anything to put Harvard off her guard, and to inspire her with an overconfidence. Yale correspondents of the public press, however, usually express the true opinion of the students in regard to their athletic prospects with a great deal of accuracy. From a letter from Yale to the New York Tribune of Feb. 20, we learn that "the boating men of Yale are now content. . . . Yale's boating prospects were never brighter. Successive victories...
...York Mail and Express devotes some of its valuable space to "College Chips," from which we learn that belligerent college students seem to be unpleasantly numerous just now; that students of the University of Pennsylvania are very important young men; that Yale boys should have what they want; that Harvard's Greek play netted a handsome profit; that the Harvard students who endeavored to disturb Oscar Wilde at his lecture in Boston, now realize that their action was not very creditable; that the college boat races next summer promise to be more exciting than ever, but that college presidents...
...decided change in the character of the selections given. Let these selections represent more truly the best thought and highest flights in French literature by giving us passages from those leading poets and dramatists who have given the world of French belles-lettres its greatest glory and finest expression. This done, the student may then feel that what he learns is of some worth and use to him, instead of dry matter which he hastens to forget after examination. Attention may also be called to the lack of composition work in French. Although the catalogue promises this as included...