Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first race for four oars, distance two miles, was called at a little after half past four...
...Holls proposes to publish a pamphlet giving a full account of the "College Oarsmen of 1875." The price of the pamphlet will be fifty cents; but to any man who will establish an agency at Harvard, one hundred or more copies will be furnished at half-price, provided that the book be ordered before the publication, and paid for, cash on delivery...
PROFESSOR (endeavoring to give a student some idea of conditional sentences). "Suppose I should say, 'If I had a million dollars, I would endow the college with half of it'; what would you infer?" STUDENT (readily). "I should infer that you were a generous man." Professorial disgust. - Williams Athenaeum...
...History, Course VI. of 1874-75, "Modern History" (seventeenth century and first half of the eighteenth) is withdrawn until 1876-77; the other courses are like those of the present year. The want of a new elective in History is noticed elsewhere. In Mathematics there are ten courses offered, with some changes in the more advanced. A new elective is given in Physics; Natural History remains unaltered; while the courses in Chemistry, being as nearly perfect as possible, have undergone no particular alteration. Music has an additional elective, and Fine Arts an advanced course on the "Rise and Fall...
...half dressed beneath thy light...