Word: giving
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...derived therefrom, nearly as follows: the pleasure of seeing and knowing personally the editors of so many papers; the relief of the journey to the wearied editorial brain; the lasting friendships we might thus form; the knowledge we might gain of each other; the "dignity" it would give college journalism; and last, the power resulting from unity of purpose and action, - for, as it conclusively asserts, "there is strength in unity." It also suggests St. Louis as the central point where the intellectual host shall assemble...
...happy to learn that the Pierian Sodality will give their usual Coffee Party in Lyceum Hall, Tuesday, March II. Tickets, 50 cents...
...those of our readers who are interested at all in the town of Cambridge, or in the religious worship of our ancestors, we earnestly recommend the Rev. Mr. McKenzie's careful and interesting history of the Church of which he is now the pastor. The illustrations give one a good idea of the different buildings occupied by the Society, and of the parsonage of 1670, with its poplar-trees and long wells-weep...
...first place, it is a compromise between desire to try a change and fear of possible bad effects; and, as is usually the case with a compromise, it fails to give any sure test. Suppose that this plan works ill, it does not therefore follow that the other plan, of allowing those in the later years of college to study as seems most advantageous to themselves, would also fail. For the latter would bring an entirely new element into the experiment; that is, it would rouse in nearly all the students a sense of responsibility, without which no system...
...touching the important question of Prayers and Recitations, in regard to which such futile hopes have been raised, reform, here needed if at all, is inactive. A plan is rumored of, to give those men whose perpetual standing is eighty per cent, or thereabouts, the privilege of voluntary attendance at recitations. We speak with the highest possible respect for the men who head our rank-lists, when we call this a throwing of pearls before swine. We regard such a course, as the elder Mr. Weller did the sending of flannel "veskits" to the young niggers who would have...