Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students than by the crowd of curious strangers that will throng it at Commencement. If every student, on leaving College, remembers the Memorial Hall as the place where some of his most enduring college friendships were formed and fostered; if he connects it in his mind with four years of genial intercourse around a social board, our patriot alumni are more truly honored in the fond memory of every graduate, than when their names are graven on marble tablets, in letters of lasting gold...
This quotation needs no comment. The technical, almost quibbling manner in which the classics are sometimes treated is in danger of running their study into the ground; and unless a man pursues his reading outside of the class-room, even a four years' election of classics will afford no general idea of this field of literature...
...King, the stroke of last year, will undoubtedly continue with the crew this year. But the energies of the students have not been slumbering in regard to athletic sports; they have merely been diverted, and, crowned with success, they now return to boating with renewed interest. About four months ago, one of our professors, William E. Byerly, a graduate of Harvard, a gentleman who has always manifested great interest in physical culture, determined to make the Gymnasium, which had so often been planned, a tangible reality; he interested several of the students with him in the affair, an association...
...Seminary Budget is the name of a four-paged paper published four times a year by some nice little girls in Mr. Perry's Seminary, Sacramento, California. Our first impulse was to drop it in the "dead" exchange basket; but suddenly we came upon this: "We are ready to exchange with all papers of high merit and literary worth." After such readiness, we can't refuse our aid to the education of these maiden Californians...
...other nations in matters of education. Whence does this arise? There are several reasons. In the first place, the children are not sent to school, or are taken away too young. Every commune, as I told you, pays its own teacher. It gives him a fixed salary, varying between four hundred and eight hundred francs a year. But this salary paid, the instruction is still not free. Each child has to contribute in addition what amounts to about a sou per day. Now, fathers - in districts where civilization has not yet penetrated - hesitate to pay this assessment. These people cannot...