Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...issue of yesterday appeared an article on "College Education in Business Life," and with the sentiments expressed therein, we, not only as students of a large and far advanced university, but also as those who would see all businesses and occupations elevated and ennobled by intellectual training, must all agree. That education, if properly used, and properly and modestly esteemed, will give both greater power and greater pleasure to business men, as well as to the literati, is undeniable. The question, however, takes at first sight a slightly different phase, when we consider whether or not the education at professional...
...that the richer students are gradually becoming permanent members of the association. If one chooses to pay $7.00 or $8.00 a week for board, he can obtain as good, if not better, food for that money at Memorial than at any small private boarding place. He also has a far greater variety from which to order at Memorial than at other places. That the Dining Association has grown in the opinion of the richer students is shown by the fact that in the past winter several men have left more expensive boarding places for the Hall, and have expressed themselves...
...which to express this enthusiasin, and the slight blame which they throw in seems to be rather a propitiatory offering to justice than an honest belief in the existence of faults. The fact is that the book has many faults. As a "piece of literary workmanship" it is far from perfect; the book abounds in inharmonious and loosely-constructed sentences; it contains positive errors so glaring as to be palpable to the merest survey; the use of metophor is carried to such an extent as to be wearisome; and the sole merit of the book is the entertaining...
...nature of a commencement part that requires stupidity, yet stupidity is the rule, not the exception in commencement parts. The facts are often scholarly, but seldom interesting. This year, however, the parts, we are told, must be interesting above all other things. The topics must be as far as possible live toplcs, or if this be impossible, and the old, time worn subjects be again raked up, the treatment of these subjects must be of a more interesting nature than usually falls to the lot of commencement parts. The absence of Prof. Hill, who has heretofore practically taken entire charge...
Some 1200 spectators, of whom three quarters were outside the fence witnessed the exhibition game with Dartmouth yesterday. The raw wind that swept across Jarvis Field was accountable for many of the errors made by both nines, but the playing was, on the whole, far from brilliant. The game was called promptly at four, with Dartmouth...