Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...life a dun cloud gathers...
...whereby extensive repairs could be made and to every student's advantage. We claim that it is the duty of the Corporation to provide better means of egress from our dormitories in case of fire. Were a first class fire to break out to-morrow with great loss of life and property, every one would be clamorous for better protection, or, to use a homely proverb, the barn would be locked after the home was stolen. There is nothing in the nature of things why we are not just as liable to a fire as any other collection of large...
THOSE persons who are fond of tracing manners and customs back into the remote past will rejoice in the material afforded them by Mr. Capes's little book entitled "University Life in Ancient Athens," in which it is shown that many of the student customs of to-day were in vogue at east fifteen hundred years...
...sure, there are many differences between the college life of the present and the college life of an age when the student received what mental instruction could be crammed into him while he was under the charge of his gymnastic teacher, when the library, which owed its increase to each student's yearly donation of one hundred volumes, was kept in the gymnasium, and when proctors successfully looked after the moral training of the youth. But both differences and similarities show that student life is much the same, whatever the time or wherever the place...
...life of an instructor in those days was by no means an easy one. Private tutors were often tossed in blankets, and the lecturers were frequently annoyed by the students singing worn-out songs, - the "Sallies" and "Bull-Dogs" of the time, - or by the talk about the latest dancer at the circus. "You forget all about Demosthenes," says an irate lecturer to his class, "and go on with your songs, which you know by heart already...