Word: liking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Oxford and Cambridge.- Oxford University is preparing to elect a new Professor of Poetry in the place of Sir Francis Doyle. Most of the students, it is said, would like to have Matthew Arnold...
...Italy has thrown its seventeen universities open to women. Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Holland have taken like action. The Sarbonae of France admit women, as do also the highest schools of medicine and surgery in Russia...
...neglecting their studies. The writer seems himself to have recognized this reason, as he saw his "genius" on New Year's Day, - a college, though not a public, holiday. The presence of our professors at these lectures has several times been noticed by the public prints: does this look like snubbing Mr. Cook...
...flop about mysteriously. W. M. Le Moyne, who has been rowing poorly, has slightly improved during the past week. His most noticeable fault is a general lack of smoothness and continuity, all his movements being stiff and changing abruptly, instead of merging easily into one another. His stroke, too, like Jacobs's, has a marked lack of vigor. Legate, while faithful and strong, has some serious faults. The use of his slide is bad throughout, and, when forward, he doubles over his knees instead of opening them and letting his belly down between, which, by the way, would enable...
...like to teach the trick...