Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weighs 200 pounds, against 192 1-2 pounds in '91 last year. The lightest man weighs 86 1-2 pounds. The tallest man is 6 ft., 1 5-8 in.; the shortest man, 4 ft., 9 5-8 in., which is about three-fourths of an inch less than the corresponding measurement in '91, and is probably the shortest measurement recorded in several years. The oldest is 26 years and 6 months, against 25 years and 8 months last year. The youngest man is 16 years and 2 months. The average age of the class is 18 years, 8 months...
...should we not petition the overseers for lights in the library? I would have a systematic canvas of the college, as in the case of the prayer petitions, and when we present to the overseers a reasonable petition signed by every man in college, the board can not do less than give a thoughtful consider to a request so unanimously presented...
Specimens of Theme IV. will be read and discussed in English B today. Theme V., a narrative, will be due today. At the same time Theme III., corrected or rewritten, is to be returned to the instructors. The Theme, of not less than fifteen hundred words, which may be substituted for Themes V. and VI., will be due on December 22, at 1 o'clock...
...circulation of the University library during the past year has been somewhat less than ten thousand volumes. This is exclusive of the special departmental libraries of the graduate schools and also of the Linonia and Brothers which has a circulation somewhat in excess of the University library. This is to be accounted for chiefly by the fact that this library contains works in general literature while the University library is limited to works of a heavier character. One rather surprising fact is that the scientific department withdraws only about 5 p. c. of the total circulation. The showing...
...Theme, of not less than fifteen hundred words, which may be substituted for Themes V. and VI., will be due on December 22, at 1 o'clock...