Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hundred and fifty pounds a year is a low estimate of the average annual value of a fellowship; so that the annual expenditure at Oxford and Cambridge for Fellows, who in that capacity are bound to no service to the University, and are free to follow their own pursuits, whether they be literary or otherwise, cannot be reckoned at less than...
...that fell shaft which laid so low...
...reason for its discontinuance. If the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality would consent to let the proceeds of their first concert go for the benefit of the Boat Club, if Sanders Theatre could be secured as the place for the entertainment, if the tickets were sold at a low figure and a thorough canvass of the College made, - if these steps could be taken, we are confident that the result would be a large addition to the boat-club funds, and a consequent reduction of the amount to be raised by subscription...
...past few years the class photographs have given more or less trouble to the successive Class Committees, more or less satisfaction to the members of the successive classes, and more or less profit to the successive photographers. The Class wants the best photographs, and wants to pay a reasonably low price for them. We do not intend to counsel extravagance, but we would suggest to the Committee that what is the cheapest in the beginning is sometimes the dearest in the end; and they should remember that the photographs will last, or at least are expected to last, long after...
...electives. The professor of phrenology should do it for him. Only picture to yourself a student having his head manipulated by my ideal professor, who thus comments on the capacities of his subject: "Memory, pretty fair; reverence, none; mechanical ability (gouging, boring holes, etc.), good; self-esteem, very low; sensibilities, none. Young man, I 'll go no further; you are especially adapted to the dental school, and I earnestly advise you to enter at once...