Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Attendance is enforced at mid-year as well as final examinations in electives taken to work off conditions; in the case of a prescribed study a condition may be removed by attaining over fifty per cent at an anticipatory examination, provided the study is not pursued longer than a half-year. Notice of a student's intention to make up any condition during the academic year must be given to the Registrar on or before October 15 of that year...
PROFESSOR C. J. WHITE will be in U. 20 from half past nine until half past ten on Saturday to give copies of the new Regulations to members of the Senior Class...
...Class, died in Newport on Sunday, December 26, of typhus fever. A few of his friends knew of his dangerous illness, but the announcement of his death was a shock for which no one was fully prepared. Although he was in Cambridge but little over a year and a half, he was universally known and was universally liked. The death of any one at twenty-one years of age is always an unusually sad event, but the death of one so bright, so generous, so uniformly good-natured as Allen Post is particularly distressing. His funeral took place...
...thing is unbearably slow. You look at your walls or your mantel-piece in the condition in which they at present are, and you are reminded of nothing but this same slow sort of thing. Last year's crew and last year's burlesque actress; certificates of admission to half a dozen more or less popular societies; a French print of a grinning grisette; at best a third-rate Landseer or two, in which the dogs and the wilder beasts unconsciously lead your mind back to sporting matters, - that is all that you will probably discover, and your thoughts will...
...chosen your pictures with a little less regard for fashion and a little more regard for taste, you will find matters very different. If you have travelled, a couple of views of some well-remembered spot will carry you at once a thousand miles away. Before your cigarette is half finished you will find yourself wandering in fancy among the crumbling ruins of Italy, or beneath the battered castles of the robber-barons of the Rhine, or in the fading palaces of the Spanish Moors...