Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SOME four hundred new German books have been received at the Library. A case of English books is expected in a few days...
...number of Seniors excused from prayers is as follows: Excused until April 1, 2; April 15, 13; May 1, 3; end of year, 30. Of these thirty, twenty-six have been excused for the whole year, and four for the remainder of the year, beginning irregularly. Two Seniors have absented themselves from the beginning of the year, and have not as yet handed in certificates, but it is understood that they will ultimately...
...they are strangers to each other, and the vast differences in antecedents, in habits, in tastes, and in character which cannot but be found among them, prevent them from forming one great circle of friends. They cannot but separate into cliques, more or less distinct; and they cannot in four years become so completely familiar with the character of every classmate that they can unhesitatingly declare that a certain man is best fitted to hold a certain office. It is safe to say that the majority are forced to accept one of two alternatives, - to vote for a candidate with...
...that about the tree, in which success is the cause of merriment, and failure of still greater merriment? Is it not a most appropriate means of taking men out of themselves, and enlivening and strengthening the sympathy between those, now about to part, who have striven together for four years in friendly but earnest emulation...
...undermine social feeling by attacking its expression, one may well wish that his lot had been cast in that golden age (problematical, to be sure, even in Homer's time) when a warrior raised with ease a stone that in after times was to require the strength of four of the fast degenerating species...