Word: member
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...passed; the very lecture-rooms wear an appearance of having the decks swept and ready for action. "Occasional examinations" are scattered broadcast in every elective, and heavy is the list of deads. The traditional softness of the junior year is rapidly assuming the form of a myth; an unfortunate member of that devoted class was heard sadly to remark that he had had five examinations, two themes, and one forensic in four weeks, and had just been grievously harassed in the Dean's office for being half an hour late with his second theme. Occasional examinations are, doubtless, a great...
...repeat the substance of these notices here, that no one may miss such an excellent opportunity of studying French Comedy, through any misunderstanding. The lectures will be free to all students of the University who have sufficient knowledge of French to obtain practical benefit from attending them. Any member of the public at large, whether man or woman, can obtain a ticket to the lectures for the small sum of fifteen dollars. The lectures will be given on every Saturday through the academic year, at University 16; they will be delivered in French, and their subject is Moli...
...objection that the club might get into the hands of a clique, who, instead of forming a chess-club, might end by practically constituting a social club, in which a person's ability as a chess-player would be among the last grounds of his eligibility as a member. In this connection it would be well to suggest that in forming a club of this kind, members should bear in mind that here, as in other cases, concessions must be made by all, and that members ought to come expecting to yield certain points of rules and decorum, which...
...there should be a few friendly games among those who were desirous of joining, and then those should form a club who could win a game from some player of known merit, after being given a certain amount of odds; then after the tournament was over the number of members should be limited, and membership only be offered to those who could win a game from some member of the already established club...
...double-scull race, a member of one club may row with a member of another...