Word: interests
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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would be of interest to the learned world, and it is to be hoped that the contributor will soon afford it. This same gentleman, growing very eloquent over his subject, remarks that "one might infer, from the absence of an elective in historical German, that there was no literature worthy of study anterior to the eighteenth century"; a statement which seems to show that he supposes that the average man, whom I suppose to be designated by the word "one," is ignorant of the existence, not only of the classics of ancient and mediaeval Europe, but also of the Bible...
ARRANGEMENTS are now being made to secure comfortable quarters for those College societies whose rooms in the buildings must be vacated in the fall. The building which has been offered them proves strong and substantial, and the Corporation agrees to move it to any available spot which the societies interested may show a preference for. Rooms will then be fitted up to the satisfaction of the societies, and their household gods will be moved for them to the new quarters. Strenuous efforts have been made to prevent the disturbance of the existing order of things, but the Corporation say that...
...large number of men who have applied for honors, this year, shows that more of us are beginning to feel an interest in sound scholarship. There has been a steady increase, for the past few years, in the number of those who go into these examinations; and it is by no means impossible that a time will soon come when to graduate without honors will be as much a sign of a loafer as to take them now is the sign of having done hard work. Many a man graduates at present without honors who has made excellent...
...never hope for anything better until it is changed. The crews, by some plan or other, ought to be chosen at least a week before the race. Even if the regular club crews entered, it would seem desirable, although it has been objected that then all interest would be centred in the scratch and not in the spring races. Having got the crews together, the race could be started on time. This is the object to be aimed at; for then the crews could row in heats, and thus with two stake-boats all chances of fouling one another would...
...other day, as I was improving a shining hour in a recitation which, by some strange mischance, lacked that absorbing interest which our recitations so generally possess, I happened to be looking at our elegant friend Augustus just as our instructor called upon Smudge. Now Smudge is not an elegant man. His clothes were certainly not made by Poole, and I don't think his hat ever saw London, or, if it did, it has certainly been on this side of the water long enough to make good a claim for naturalization; but though his clothes are far from...