Word: making
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very trying one. Notwithstanding the fact that a cross-eyed copper drove a handful of us from the Common last year, because that was for the people and we had grounds of our own-a good half of Cambridge's male population-or perhaps a bad half-make the college yard the place for the daily exercise of their powers of locomotion and speech. Is there no other grass in the city? or no other pump? If we could stop this invasion for a week or so the habit would be weakened, and we should all get better marks...
...often for speculation. Persons who have delayed getting tickets have often been compelled to pay large premiums to get any seats at all. It is probably impossible to abolish wholly this evil of speculation, but by the new rule it will be reduced to a minimum. The effort to make the chances of individual purchasers more equal must also meet the approval...
...nowadays so great that any means of reducing them is a matter of great importance for the University. A similar plan has been arranged for a Loan Library of text-books. Almost everybody has a shelf full of old text-books of which he would be glad to make any disposition that might be useful to some one; and we understand that text-books of any sort are most earnestly desired. It is not too much to ask that every student, in leaving his room for the vacation, should consider whether he has not some piece of furniture and some...
...Henry W. Sage, the princely patron or Cornell University, has announced a gift of $300,000 for the endowment of the library, and his purpose to make good the cost of the library building, amounting to $200000, in case the University loses the McGraw-Fiske suit...
...freshman and sophomore years, but in the last two years the groups will be four instead of six. Exclusions of electives are to be made on two principles: First, to leave open as far as possible electives of general character and those common to juniors and seniors; second, to make mutually exclusive the more specialized electives and those clearly incongruous. General honors will be granted for general excellence substantially as at present. Special honors will be awarded only to students whose average is above mediocrity. In freshman year the candidate must take four hours in the department in which...