Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...work, in which they will naturally take Math. 1 and 2 (or 1 alone, with other scientific electives), should consult their professors as to the precise direction of their choice. Those, on the other hand, who merely wish to keep up a moderate amount of Mathematics in order to give variety to literary studies can make a profitable election among courses 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, in which the presence of such students is distinctly recognized. If they become really interested in their mathematical work, they may add to these studies either 5 or 7; and no student...
...still will give the patriot soul his meed...
...College Spectator contains an editorial upon the disputed magenta. It expresses the willingness of Union College to give up the color, but at the same time it insists that it is properly theirs by priority of adoption. In its anxiety to prove this priority, it declares that "in 1857, when colleges were choosing colors as a distinctive mark, Union chose magenta." A glance at the history of the time would have shown that the battle which gave its name to the color in question was not fought until June, 1859. If Union College chose the color two years earlier...
...them. In journalism phonography plays an important part in its own department. No newspaper can be conducted without its corps of stenographers. They always command a high salary, and good workmen are always in employment, words requires all his attention, and it is generally the case that he cannot give any account whatever of the lecture, without referring to his notes. Thus it is obvious that the phonographer does not have the opportunity of increasing his general knowledge; that he cannot easily become the practical man that a successful editor must be; he is kept at short-hand, and smothers...
...admission to this celebrated fraternity, which has on its rolls the names of so large a proportion of Harvard's distinguished graduates, is one of the highest honors which are bestowed on successful students, it cannot be out of place to give expression in this public manner to the general opinion that the annual supper would be far pleasanter, if two hours and a half were not spent in listening to so many weak and silly attempts at wit. Just as this year's dinner was more entertaining than the last, let us hope that next year some more amusing...