Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...several men enjoyed a very pleasant evening in Proof Palmer's rooms. The example thus set by Prof. Palmer is certainly worthy of imitation by the other professors and instructors in college. It has always been urged against large colleges that in them the number of students is so great that close social intercourse between the men and their instructors is impossible. That this is in a great measure true, is evident from the very slight acquaintance which men in our own college have with their instructor. This is a fact greatly to be deplored; for it is undoubtedly...
...while this state of things is an advantage to Yale in aiding her to satisfy her ambition for conquest in the field, it is a great disadvantage to her in every other respect, for it lowers the general tone of the college and causes that marked contrast between the swaggering type which, in a way, represents Yale, and the more refined type which is conceded to Harvard. It creates a sentiment among her alumni which enables them to listen with proud and beaming countenances to a speech as rowdies in character as that celebrated speech of Peters of the Bones...
...enter the contests. If we are to win the cup this year, every man who can possibly help has got to take hold and work for the success of the team. If those men who have the ability will enter these contests, the training thus secured will go a great way toward helping us win the cup. Mr. J. G. Lathrop will be glad to coach the contestants in these events at any time. All who intend to enter the contests will send their names at once to F. B. LUND, 14 Wodsworth...
...BRINE, 10 and 11 Harvard Row, would ask attention to the great variety of Umbrellas, Hats and Caps, Mufflers and Neckwear just opened. All kinds of repairing done promptly and at low prices...
...artificial genders, only one conjugation, and no irregular words. The method of derivation is always the same, the adjective, verb and adverb being regularly formed from the substantive, invariably having the same termination, so it is necessary to learn only the nouns of the language. Volapuk has spread with great rapidity. Schleyer's publications date only from 1879, yet now his pupils are numbered by the thousands and seventy societies have formed for study of the language. Schleyer's dictionary contains 13,000 words. There is as yet no English-Volapuk dictionary, but one is being prepared. It is stated...