Word: fates
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students throughout the world." It had, at one time, correspondents in thirty-three colleges, among which were several German and English universities. It was, however. Too stupendous an undertaking for men who had so many other duties to attend to, and after eight numbers had appeared, it shared the fate of so many others...
...townsmen, specially chosen, offer at St. Mary's Church sixty-three pence, in memory of sixty-three "innocent scholars," barbarously murdered by the townsmen in the reign of Edward Third. Compare this with the state of things existing here. Here, every year, as many "innocent scholars" meet their fate at the hands of the designers of the town,-falling unhappy victims to the charms of the young ladies of the place. And do the maidens of this burgh ever offer up a penny to the memory of their slain? No, never! Yet how appropriate would the custom be! How interesting...
...Pauls. Five years after the first commencement exercises held at the beginning of the last century, the building, with the library and physical apparatus, was destroyed by fire, at a time when the colonial legislature was holding its sessions in its walls, curiously co-incident with the fate that befell Harvard Hall in 1764. Unfortunate in this and other occurrences (it was burned three times) in its unhappy situation during the wars of the Revolution and the Rebellion, in both of which it suffered, and crippled in its finances by injudicious investments, it has at last succumbed...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -The fate of Course five in Political Economy is at stake, inasmuch as a sufficient number of students is wanting who are willing to pursue the study. The course comprises a comparison of the land tenures of England, Ireiand, France and Germany, with reference specifically to their economic efforts; that is, it embraces the entire subject of peasant proprietorship, farming on a large or small scale, and other interesting matters which directly or indirectly have no small bearing upon the land system of our country. In accordance with the College Regulations at least four students are required...
...fate of all," wails our fair A. B., "at one period or another, to pass under the microscope of criticism, and the quivering A. B. seems to be allotted an unusual length of time under the "object-glass." How sad! "A three-horned dilemma presents itself at this juncture: First, the new A. B. signally lacks that very perfection in detail which is breath to the nostrils of society. Finesse of manner can be acquired, but the college-bred have an aversion to artificial veneer. "Are you sound at the core" is their text. Second...