Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ready access to it. A canvass of the College will be made before long, and it is desirable that two hundred copies should be subscribed for among the students of the University. The book will be bound in cloth, and the maximum price will be two dollars and a half...
...dozen years, you suddenly remove all restraints and say, 'It is a very difficult thing to lay out a course of study properly, so use all wisdom, and Heaven bless you, my dear.'" Here my aunt gave an explosive snort of indignation. "What wonder," she continued, "that half the number wish to enjoy their sudden freedom, and rush for what you call soft electives, while the rest wander helplessly about choosing subjects for which they are not fitted, and giving them up in disgust for something else just as unsuitable...
...scherzo of Beethoven by one who himself ranks high as a critic and a composer. Mr. Paine is willing that all those not regularly members of the elective, but wishing to hear him play the various movements analyzed, should be present during the hour. The lectures are given at half past one, Wednesdays, in Lower Boylston...
...Board of Directors at Memorial Hall have at length put the Sunday breakfast half an hour later. The general appreciation of the change was shown by the number of men who last Sunday took advantage of this privilege and appeared in the Hall between nine and half-past. Considering how dear to most of us is that extra "forty winks" on the only morning whose slumberous stillness is unbroken by either first or second bell, and considering that all private clubs have late breakfasts on Sunday, it seems strange that the Board have not been sooner compelled, by complaints...
...decision of the Board that Memorial shall be kept open during the recess, and that those who are absent from Cambridge shall be charged half price, is, perhaps, on the face of it, somewhat unfair; but the same notice that gave the above information threw some crumbs of comfort to the members by assuring them that the decision had only been arrived at after a full discussion of many plans. One of these, it seems, was to close the Hall entirely, a course which experience has proved would result in a debt of $1,000 that would have...