Word: go
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...greater degree of regularity in their work. If the recesses remain as short as they are at present, this change will doubtless be the cause of inconvenience for the men who live at a considerable distance from Cambridge. Especially will this be true at Christmas when everybody wants to go home; but it would not be worth while for many men to do so for a vacation of only eleven or twelve days...
...Babylonians and Assyrians, the Armenians, the Cappadocians, and the Persians. It was at first a picture writing, like the Egyptians and the Chinese. Each sign stood for an object or idea. By a development some of the signs came to stand for syllables. Beyond this the Babylonians refused to go, but the Persians, on adopting the script, rejected most of the signs and reduced the rest to an alphabet of about forty-six letters. The place and date of the origin of the script are unknown. The oldest recovered specimens are from about 4000 B. C., and come from Tello...
...Harvard can be improved. The matter has been talked over with the Boston and New York graduates and they are of the same opinion. They have generously subscribed money for a challenge cup, valued at $250, to be competed for each fall, for ten years, and finally to go to the man having the best record in that time. The conditions regarding the kicking and the cup will be published later in the season. The cup is open to every member of the university and every afternoon, except Saturday, a squab practices kicking. Anyone wishing to try, even...
...Harvard can be improved. The matter has been talked over with the Boston and New York graduates, and they are of the same opinion. They have generously subscribed money for a challenge cup, valued at $250, to be competed for each fall, for ten years, and finally to go to the man having the best record in that time. The conditions regarding the kicking and the cup will be published later in the season. The cup is open to every member of the University and every afternoon, except Saturday, a squad practices kicking. Any one wishing to try, even...
...when he comes to college, has no very clear idea of how to conduct himself at recitations, certainly he ought to have had ample chance to learn in the first half-year, and after the mid-years be able to go into a lecture-room and sit for an hour without either disgracing himself or disturbing his neighbors...