Word: follows
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Professors D. Cady Eaton and Henry P. Wright have gone to Europe. Professor Day is to follow them soon...
...other a railroad on which a train of platform cars would be run, during the race, abreast of the boats and in full view of them, except for a few hundred feet where the road passes through a short cut. There is, also, ample opportunity for large steamers to follow the race, and a seaport like New London will be able to supply enough of these vessels. The hotels will easily accommodate two thousand guests, and it is proposed to bring up a steamboat or two from New York as a floating hotel. The railroad management is most liberal...
...Whether he is right in saying demand, command, castle, example, I won't undertake to decide; he certainly has much authority on his side. Perhaps, however, the safest way to shun the extremities represented by the Western haff and laff and the Yankee's parst and larst is to follow the medio tutissimus ibis rule of Ovid...
...justice to be done to discrepancy, chestnut, or hecatomb since in college, and rarely to romance, finance, research, and resource. I have no desire to discuss the much-mooted question as to where we are to look for the standard of pronunciation; we shall be undoubtedly safe if we follow the usage of the best literary society we know. New-Englanders boast that, within the radius of ten miles from the Massachusetts State House there is more "cultchar" and education represented than in any other district of its size in the United States. True or not, we must, unless...
...prepared in certain branches, his matriculation may, with the consent of the Faculty, be deferred for a reasonable time. Special students are admitted on showing their ability to make a good use of the advantages which the University offers. Among the requirements are the following, not necessary at Harvard; in mathematics, solid geometry, trigonometry, analytic geometry; in Latin, one book of Livy and two books of Horace; in Greek, one play of Euripides. French and German may be offered instead of Greek. In the languages the examinations aim to find out whether the candidate has "a sound and accurate knowledge...