Word: eye
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college then as now kept a very careful eye upon the main chance in the matter of finances. Rule 13 is: "Every fellow commoner shall bring a piece of silver plate to the Colledge to the value (at the least) of three pounds, with his name engraven thereupon, which he may have the use of while he shall abide in the Colledge, and shall leave it to the propriety of the Colledge when he departs from...
About 500 horses have died of the pink-eye in Montreal...
...asked to "find" his family escutcheon they suggested that he take the name of Verdantique. The coat-of-arms, by the way, is quite peculiar and characteristic - uncomfortably so, Miss Winnie thinks. There is a light-green barrel of petroleum surmounted by a bull which knowingly winks his right eye; one hoof is raised to the side of the nose for some unaccountable reason - probably wants to scratch it. The petition has evidently been carefully sealed in an envelope that seems to have been opened by some skeleton hand. The paper had a sulphurous smell, but for what reason...
...askance. It is a query whether or no a college gains by enlarging indefinitely its curriculum. The old American college course was and is well suited to our social conditions and needs, and any scheme which should entirely subvert it, I, at least, could not regard with a favorable eye. But there is another field of scholastic work little tilled thus far among us, where the widest facilities of research in every direction should be ready at hand, namely, the university or post-graduation curriculum. If now, as is apparently the case, Columbia means to offer to college-bred...
...care to pay an "admission" fee for stepping over a certain - or uncertain, rather - boundary; as a prominent paper remarked Sunday, "of the 2,500 spectators at the Brown-Harvard game, about 500 paid anything." A brick wall has been talked of as more agreeable to the eye than a board fence. It matters not what it is, but there should be some barrier to the mob. - [News...