Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Exploration has been largely the work of the school. Dr. Sterrett has made several expeditions and his collections of inscriptions form a valuable prize for classical research...
...movement is on foot to form a New England Association of the Alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy...
...during which eight generations of men have come and gone, until their quarter-millennial anniversaries are just before us. The success of these time honored organizations reflects new lustre upon their founders, and calls for a proper recognition from their children. We trust this will be forthcoming, and take form in a way which shall do honor to these ancient institutions. The First Church was organized in February, 1636, with Thomas Shepard as its minister. Shepard graduated from Emmanuel College, England, in 1623, and after much persecution from Archbishop Laud of London, sailed for New England in the ship Defence...
...because those who have to travel it are too "short;" and as usual there were left in Cambridge during the last recess one or two men to guard each entry of the dormitories in the absence of the proctors, and in all, seventy-five or a hundred to form quite an active colony around the wooden screen in the Memorial dining-hall. These were the men who moved about the yard Tuesday afternoon rather slowly and aimlessly, watching the trunks and bags roll out of the yard and catching glimpses of well-filled horsecars leaving Harvard Square, and finally climbing...
...present year seems to be one of reform. Revisions of the regulations and warnings are now supplemented by a revision of the term bills. If we sought to characterize the new form of the term-bills by two words, we would say it is in the first place simple, and in the second place economical. While the old term-bill had to be turned about at two or three different angles before the happy recipient could satisfy his thrilling interest in its contents, the new bill may be read, like any other bill, with less trouble and in less time...