Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale papers give some interesting statistics this week. The numbers of the graduating classes for the last six years are as follows...
...give a notion of the expenses of the Club, we will quote from a letter recently sent us by one of its members. Subscribers of course expect seats, and it is necessary to erect them temporarily for each match. The person who bought the seats last year finds it impossible to erect them for a single day at a smaller price than $75, - three times what he gave for them. To prevent non-subscribers from occupying the seats, it has been found necessary to rope in a portion of the field, and to hire police-officers to guard it against...
...numerous, in the last three years, to allow the student on the average only four weeks to compose each one, which is certainly by no means too long for those who have acquired no great facility in arranging their ideas. These are all carefully examined by able Professors, who give their opinions upon the merits or demerits of each essay to its author, so that no one is without help in discovering- and correcting his faults. Again, men who can do more work are contributors to the College papers, and, though more rarely, to other magazines or papers; and, while...
...been a decided decrease at Harvard of this kind of practical joking. Since the present Board of Editors has been connected with the paper, there has been no other wanton and perfectly objectless destruction of College property. The unusual character of the occurrence makes it doubly worth while to give public expression to what may safely be termed public opinion, and to inform the humorous gentlemen who are presumed to have managed this affair, that, in case of detection, they cannot expect the sympathy of the majority of their fellow-students...
...whole ground, I would freely maintain that the Nation, as well as all other vigorous writing of a practical nature, had tended to produce that desirable result. But he will insist on attaching a definite significance to that time-honored phrase of "Harvard indifference." Some one has said, "Give ear to no doctrine that has not a beard on its face." If I might be allowed to force the simile, it is in this case the whitened beard of decrepitude that points to speedy demise...