Word: mention
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Physical Laboratory and the advantages which it offers is the most noticeable addition to the new volume. Besides this, there is the new Channcy Wright prize for a mathematical thesis, and a description of the valuable Boylston prizes for medical research. The Lee prize-reading having been discontinued, all mention of them ceases with 1883-84. These few additions and changes, together with the new names and rank of the students are the only points which make the new catalogue different from its immediate predecessor. And now that a suitable binding has been decided upon, why should it not become...
...matter what he may think or feel about it, than to attend daily public prayers. The former is, undoubtedly, more shocking in its external aspect, but both are acts of worship, and to anybody who remembers what religious people consider worship to be, there can be no difference worth mention, between compulsory performance in one case, and in the other. Compulsory communion has long been given up in England, both for young and old, and people look back on it, now, with horror, as they will here, we have no doubt, in American colleges on compulsory prayer by mocking...
...Princetonian is making a bold strike for three weeks vacation at Christmas instead of two. It speaks of "Harvard, Yale, and other colleges which give three weeks vacation at Christmas-tide." We would like to inform the Princetonian that Harvard is the last place it should mention to get authority for long vacations, Ten days is the length of our Christmas vacation: one day the length of the so called "Thanksgiving recess...
...exhibit will consist of specimens of work done by the students in wood and metal turning, in forging and casting, in mechanical, architectural and topographical drawings, manuscript books explaining the systems and methods employed in the various departments of the institution, and many other things too numerous to mention...
...When Memorial Hall was built, I doubt if the idea of the dining-room's ever being too small was entertained. However, to-day we wish it larger. To accommodate the increased numbers, some have suggested the use of the west gallery, others have gone so far as to mention the floor of Sanders, but no satisfactory plan has been found yet. For the present, at least, the rule must be "first come, first served," and late applicants must take their chances...