Word: founds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...book of autographs of the Senior Class will be found at Richardson's the middle of next week...
...backward in appreciating the value of an effort "to do honor to Shakspere, to make out the succession of his plays, and thereby the growth of his mind and art." Mr. Furnivall complains that there are no such students of Shakspere in England as may be found in Germany, and gives as a reason the narrow way in which Englishmen have devoted themselves to the mere text, instead of striving for a comprehensive view, through his plays, of the man Shakspere himself, both in his youth and riper years. To carry on this broader study it is necessary to arrange...
...HARTFORD gentleman who had tarried late at a wine supper found his wife awaiting his return in a high state of nervousness. Said she, "Here I've been waiting and rocking in a chair till my head swims round like a top." "Jess so where I've been," responded he; "it's in the atmosphere." - Spectator...
...scheme of electives reminds us of the approach of the time for choosing studies for the next year, and brings to mind one of the practical failings of the elective system. Very many of us have found that the liberty given in this direction fails of accomplishing its end, and that from the want of knowledge of the nature of some of the studies offered we are but little better off than we should be if the studies were decided for us. The fault does not lie in the Elective System itself, but in the necessity of choosing without sufficient...
...columns of our two papers are open to our essays at writing, and without denying their excellence, we may say that they would be very much better if they could command, as they would like, a stronger literary support; but for practice in speaking hardly a chance is found, even in our societies, of which all the students are not members. No one can forget that some of the greatest English orators won their first laurels, and gave the first indications of a brilliant future, at the debates of a society whose only object was exercise in speaking...