Word: harding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...loneliness. It seemed like a sacrilege to disturb the deep silence by pushing open the creaking doors. The books stared me out of countenance, and the busts glared at me as at an intruder. I sat down with a grim determination to be amused; but after an hour's hard work, I concluded that the dulness of the classic city had communicated itself to every volume in the library, and with a sigh prepared to leave the building. A scraping on the stone steps, a flutter of dresses, and a party of three ladies entered. One was bewitchingly pretty, petite...
THERE are pleasures in a Bowdoin prize. It gives the winner grandeur in the eyes of Freshmen, and a wonderful reputation among his maiden aunts and country cousins; and the money in these hard times is decidedly convenient in making one's cash account balance with remittances from home...
...trespass on your space if mine were the only case of the sort, but I find that many others have suffered in the same way. I will not presume to suggest a remedy for this, - except more care on the part of the examiner, - but it certainly seems hard that I should have a condition on account of the carelessness of the instructor, and not through any fault of your contributor...
...moral doubt of misconduct in this case, although, from the nature of the offence, there may have been a legal doubt. It was not to be expected that any one would be fool enough to come forward and confess that he had bribed a tutor. It would have been hard, however, to have found any undergraduate who had not frequently heard of his doings. We are perfectly aware that a story may spread from a small beginning, but when a large number of reports of this sort are prevalent for three years, circumstantially told and coming from various and reliable...
...take the two courses, if they desire to do so; but it seems to me that it is an act of injustice to prevent any Junior from electing it. It is acknowledged that this course is one of the most important that is given, and it is certainly very hard to have to put it off until the Senior year, and thus to be prevented from taking Philosophy 7 at all. There does not seem to be any reason why a third division should not be formed, and thus give room...