Word: likeness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which has rendered the use of the unpretentious building on Holmes unnecessary. It cannot be denied that Cambridge, in the vicinity of the college at least, is a remarkably healthy place of residence. It is many years since our hospital has had a patient in its wards, and anything like the epidemic diseases which often cause other colleges to close their doors is utterly unknown to us. From the care with which our sanitary arrangements are constantly attended to, we feel sure that our reputation for healthiness will continue indefinitely...
There is an old saw to the effect that "time and tide wait for no man." Years of experience have convinced nearly all the denizens of this world that the saying, like many others of a kindred nature, contains a very large proportion of truth. In fact this truth has stood the test of so many seasons that it has ceased to be a subject of more than passing thought to anyone. Now, when a man; in the face and eyes of the world, or at least so much of the world as is contained within the walls of Memorial...
...breakfast hurriedly, under the impression that the hour of chapel is upon us, and then when the clock says 8.40 have the hands set carefully back to 8.31. We would not be understood as taking offence at the slight put upon Father Time, but we would like to see the old gentleman regulated a little earlier in the morning...
...heads. They tore off the few freshmen who had on shirts every sign of them. They rolled the freshmen on the ground and walked on them. Most of the freshmen looked as if they thought the end of the world had come. Their red paint spread all over them like oil on troubled waters. Their faces were scratched and their trousers were torn. They looked sad and goreful. Sophomore Parker performed ground and lofty tumbling. He was occasionally seen to rise in the air and sail horizontally over the outskirts of the cloud. He usually came down on a freshman...
...recitations are already taken up. This is a remedy which, although it might not find favor with our already over-worked instructors, yet because it would be of so much benefit to the students, we feel justified in suggesting it. If the instructors in some of the courses like English VIII, which has but one lecture a week, were persuaded to give the same lecture twice, then the trouble would be done away with; and many students could feel the advantages of the elective system more fully and more satisfactorily...