Word: like
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seems a little singular that in a college like this, where an elective system prevails, and the course of study is consequently left to a great extent to be selected by each student for himself, there is no provision for any instruction for the purpose of enabling us to make an intelligent choice. In order to make such a choice it is particularly important to have clear ideas of the manner in which all knowledge is divided or classified, and of the value and applications of the different branches, together with the general character of each, and their mutual relations...
...employ men to build fires, etc., will be obliged to engage the janitor for those purposes. The occupants, moreover, who have washing done in Cambridge must have it done by the family. Or, in the words of a Boston paper, "Holyoke will be managed in every way like a first-class hotel, except that no meals will be served." The object of the proposed change is to exclude from the building persons who do not belong there, and to make the property of the students more secure. The measure is looked upon by some occupants of the building as extremely...
...like the Afric lion wild...
...readers in Cambridge have already heard of the great increase in our facilities for learning which the kindness of our instructors proposes to offer next year. It is intended that, on two or three evenings of the week, the instructors in the various languages shall hold readings, like those we have at present by Professor Child and Professor Palmer, so arranged that in the course of four years every undergraduate may, without undertaking any extra work, be able to become acquainted with the writings of the best authors in each language. The Greek and Shakspere readings, which have already proved...
...shun me, Chloe, like the hind...