Word: lord
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DOUBTLESS the marking system will long remain, as now, the mystery of mysteries of college life, - one of those things which, as Lord Dundreary would say, "no fellow can understand." In vain we seek of the Faculty, of proctors and instructors, of graduates and undergraduates, for an exposition of the principles of this mysterious institutions, which hear without argument, judges in secret, and from whose decision there is no appeal; an institution unmoved by entreaty, callous to criticism, and stoically indifferent amidst the ruin it has wrought. It is not my present intention to censure this system...
...rules are very strict about the observance of the "Lord's day," among them being this: "No one shall profane the day by unnecessary business, or visiting or receiving visits, or walking on the common or in the streets or fields." It might be well also to remember that they were obliged to attend church on Thanksgiving. Prayers were twice a day, at night as well as morning, by which means, I presume, the fines were vastly increased...
...WHEN with the years for ordinates, and the classes for abscissas, the curve of our fortune shall be constructed, may there not be the depression which is threatened for the year of our Lord and the Seniors...
...N.President, A. B. Weimer; Vice-President, F. J. Kaulett; Secretary, H. N. Perry; Treasurer, D. W. Lord...
...have since had reason to suppose that I only saw the gentleman's clerk, but the advice is good enough to follow. But, O Lord, I hope the Advocate is not mistaken...