Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Herald headed " Study of Greek Optional," was written at the advice of a prominent member of the faculty in the Greek department. The gentleman informed me that an informal vote on the question stood 30 to 2, and that the final vote was postponed as a matter of form to the next meeting, and urged me to say that the faculty had already decided the matter. I never have, and never shall, " print news on insufficient information in a great city daily...
...object of our literary supplement. Our plan is to select, with the assistance of the instructors of the English department, the most readable of the essays, " themes," and " forensics," which in the past have lain idle in the desks of the instructors, and to print them in the form of a monthly supplement. At all events we shall try the experiment once, and see how it works. The instructors, we are glad to say, show the warmest interest in the scheme, and have kindly given us help and advice. They feel, as we do, that such a supplement will react...
...common run of dinner speakers as his father is above the common race of banquet posts. Indeed, those two speeches of the younger Holmes are nothing short of poems in prose, being conceived in the loftiest spirit and broadest view, and scarcely less perfectly chiselled and polised in form than if they were in verse." -Boston Transcript...
...conditions in the enjoyment of his income, and is at liberty to pursue almost any course of study. In some extreme cases, unfortunately, he simply receives his money very regularly, and does little to improve his scholarship or to advance learning and culture. The fellows of a college form its governing body, corresponding somewhat to our overseers...
...ponderous "Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates Journal," has now taken a smaller and more convenient form, appearing weekly under the title of the Oxford Review...