Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The announcement of the conditions of the Sargent prize for the best translation of one of the epodes of Horace, is well calculated to stimulate an interesting competition. While the date which has been fixed is somewhat unfortunate, sufficient time will be allowed for any earnest writer to complete the...
The members of different corps never recognize each other during the time while the term is in progress, but those at the head of each corps meet and arrange the duels, and the members fight as they decide. This fighting takes place every Tuesday and Friday, from 9 a.m. to...
"The literary societies of our colleges are chiefly of two sorts - either devoted to the reading of essays and other similar literary productions written by the students, or else consisting of formal debates on subjects of small general interest. Societies of both these sorts have been tried at the Johns...
The new system is asserted to be a system. Students under it are still under bonds, "bonds more compulsive than the old, because fitted with nicer adjustment to each one's person. . . . It remains authoritative, . . . . it insists on that authority which reveals to a man his own better purposes, and...
The date of the fall tennis tournament has at last been fixed. We hope that this tournament will not be a repetition of that of last year, as no one can take any interest in a contest that drags on for two or three weeks. We have been assured by...