Word: form
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pretend to be, a lecturer. If the University Lectures are to be a success, the College should engage men who not only have a sufficient knowledge of their subject, as all the lecturers thus far have had, but are able, 1st, to put what they know in an intelligible form; 2d, to deliver it so that they can be heard, and, if possible, so that they can hold the attention of their audience. If it is impossible for the College to secure such men, although other organizations seem to find no difficulty in doing so, we would suggest that lectures...
...three hundred and twenty-five Yale men examined by Dr. Jeffries, only five were found to be color-blind. Two of these were violet blind, a very rare form of color-blindness...
...care not for the form and grace
...writer in the Watchman, "have been agitating theatre reform. There seems to be need of it. The lowest play ever put before the American public has been acted in Boston for a week or two past, and, if all the reports are true, the students from Harvard College have formed no inconsiderable part of the audience. . . . If there is not discipline enough in the College to keep the students in their rooms, the parents of the young men ought to know that they are out, and govern themselves accordingly." We are used to the misrepresentations of Harvard in the Herald...
...plan proposes: First, That the colleges interested (Harvard, Yale, Brown, Princeton, Amherst, &c.) should form a League or Union, the necessary business of which should be conducted by an Executive or Judiciary Committee composed of one or more representatives from each college included in the League or Union...