Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Another writer in the same paper goes to much greater lengths in his attack on our time-honored institution. "K" is not at all cool or persuasive in his arguments, but "goes for" class feeling as an abolitionist might have spoken against slavery. He says: "Its atmosphere is stifling, and...
Resolved, That an undergraduate connected with any institution be declarede ligible for its representative or University crew; meaning by "undergraduate" all candidates for the degree A. B., Ph. B., or such other degree as represents a similar or parallel course. But no person shall be allowed to row on the...
This, too, is the system that should be followed in teaching the classics. If the students in these days, as our author says they used to do, came to college, after four or five years of careful preparation, with a sufficient knowledge of the grammatical principles, the drill he objects...
EACH decade of college life brings forth new words, the derivation, meaning, and correct application of which are often distorted; one year they may express one thing, and the next fall into disuse. The word which forms the caption of this article, since it is turned from its usual signification...
WE have received the March number of Lippincott's, which is as good as ever. It has a well-written and well-illustrated article on the "Roumi in Kabylia"; one by Professor T. B. Maury upon the Trans-Alleghany Water-Way; the opening chapters of Mr. William Black's new...