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Word: justness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Since I graduated (you know I took Classical Honors in '7-) I've been teaching Latin here. My position would be very pleasant if the students would only pronounce rightly, and not persist in spelling caelum, coelum, and cena, caena, or coena. The worst of the matter is that they...

Author: By Ass PROF. Bypath., | Title: DE GUSTIBUS NON DISPUTANDUM EST. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

My method would be perfectly satisfactory if our Faculty were only as advanced as yours; but, unfortunately, they will not allow me to condition a man for cutting, "because," they blindly say, "voluntary attendance at recitations is allowed by the regulations." Just as if that were any reason! O, if...

Author: By Ass PROF. Bypath., | Title: DE GUSTIBUS NON DISPUTANDUM EST. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

PHOTOGRAPHS of an instructor in a once popular History Course are now on sale at Sever's. He is represented as just having marked an examination-book forty per cent. The demand has thus far been rather light, so in future a copy of the "Verses from the Harvard Advocate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

IT has been objected to a general system of eleemosynary scholarships, that, under conditions which are found in America, it is impossible to make a fair selection of those who should be encouraged to compete for them. The reasons which prevent business men from confessing their want of success, in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIPS. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

One more sled remains at the top of the hill, a battered old hulk, handed down from time immemorial; inscribed on it in faded letters is, "Long live the ancient customs!" A gray-haired, venerable-looking person sits on it, and looks round for some friend to give him a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COAST OF THE SEASON. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

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