Word: hand
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present the bound periodicals can be taken out as any other books and kept out for one month. The result has been that men writing theses and forensics are put to a great inconvenience because they are unable to refer to articles which bear on the subject in hand. >These bound periodicals are essentially books of reference, and should not be allowed to leave the library except upon the conditions which govern the use of reserved books in the reading-room. It is seldom that anyone desires to read more than one of the fifty or more articles which...
...sympathies roused at the discovery that their souls and sufferings are at all like our own. And if we investigate general tendencies instead of individual promise, we fail to find any near prospect of a return of the lost spirit of creativeness and spontaneity. In America, on the other hand, though to be sure no one singer seems ready to catch the mantle of Tennyson when it falls, yet the national character seems likely to favor the growth of a new school of poetry that may in the near future take rank with the best of England...
...must come when the over-inquisitive professor insists upon digging them up in order to obtain how far they have sprouted. Hereafter, the fall work being thoroughly reviewed is to be set aside forever, and we are to be permitted to combine our energies upon the task in hand. The change must prove beneficial in every respect, and we hail it most cordially as a promising sign of progress. - Williams...
...compromise candidate of the two opposing elements. He is a man of broad learning, a bright and witty talker and writer, and an advocate of the university idea as against the college idea. His selection by the Corporation, would, of course, disappoint many, but on the other hand, it would be applauded by others, among whom are many members of the faculty. - New Haven letter in Evening Post...
...ushers for the concert to-night will please be on hand at 7.15. Those who cannot come are requested to notify the chief usher...