Word: followed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...given next Tuesday evening, November 21, by the Thomas Orchestra, at 8 o'clock precisely. The programme will be made up of two overtures, one by Beethoven and one by J. K. Paine; two symphonies, one by Schubert, the other y Beethoven; a violin concerto of Mendelssohn will follow. Single tickets can now be had at Sever's for one dollar. Admission to the balcony over the stage will be sold at fifty cents each. The second concert will be given on Thursday evening, December...
...most liberal and widest culture, the opinion stated above will seem an erroneous one. We have been accustomed to regard our college as offering to its students the best of advantages, and as initiating one so deeply in the mysteries of a department which he intends to follow as a specialty, that, when brought into competition with students from other colleges, he would at the start have such an advantage as to be able to quickly outstrip his competitors. The facts, however, seem to belie such a belief; and the explanation is, I think, a simple...
...that none of these authors have been taken up in this elective, and that the letters of Gajus Pliny the Younger have been substituted? If the professors are not bound down to follow the printed programme, it certainly seems fair that some warning should be given to the unsuspecting to that effect. In the present case the change is not one that could cause much trouble, but it would be quite an unpleasant surprise to one who intended to pursue a course in Fine Arts with ardor to find that Mechanics had been put in its place. Is the elective...
...college and on Class Day they are almost universally worn by the class holding the celebration, and by the orators always. Also in other college affairs the men who have parts, and the marshals, committee-men, etc., are obliged to wear them, but the rest of the students follow their own inclinations in the matter. On Commencement Day, however, the wearing of gowns is obligatory. By no means do all the students own gowns, but the majority, when occasion demands, hire them from the janitor, who always keeps them on hand, the charge therefor being $1.50 apiece. It seems...
...singular fact that every man, whatever he may think of himself in other ways, feels sure in his heart of hearts that he is level-headed,- to use an expressive bit of slang. If he makes any mistakes, it is always because he did not follow the dictates of his judgment. And every man considers his views of money matters to be as sound as sound can be. People who agree with him he considers as sound as himself. People who do not agree with him he calls fools. Now of course you do not want to be called...