Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that at Columbia a new marking system will soon be put in force whereby men of high standing will be exempted from examinations...
George Francis Train gave a rather incoherent lecture to a small audience in Bangor on Monday evening. Among other things, he drew a diagram, on which he represented himself as on the top of a high mountain, exceeding in knowledge everybody else in the world. He placed Harvard graduates in the bottom layer, bunco steerers next above them, and then Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Under this title, Mr. W. Goodrich Beal has brought together six original etchings of glimpses in and about Harvard Square. This is Mr. Beal's first publication. Indeed his name has hitherto been unknown, but this work has already received high praise from the Boston press, and deserves to win no small share of recognition. Perhaps the best of the etchings-certainly the most delicate and expressive one-is that of the old church-yard with the low tower of Christ Church amid the trees. It is full of the beauful air of repose which has endeared Gray's "Elegy...
...print the foregoing article with especial pleasure, as it is a contribution from a graduate of the University in high standing...
...Appleton Chapel are always (?) reserved on Sunday evenings for students alone until 7.30, at which hour all vacant seats will be filled by the surplus Cambridge people. How many complaints have been made, whereof the purport is that on Sunday evening last there was a great rush from the high-ways and byways of this classic town to Appleton Chapel, where Dr. Brooks was to preach-that even before the hour specified all the seats except a very few near the front were filled-mainly with Cambridge citizens. The complainants go on to assert that many students were obliged either...