Word: mind
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long article in a prominent daily the question of admitting women to degrees at Oxford and Cambridge is fully discussed. There is not a doubt in the author's mind but that the much sought after sanction by the college faculties will be given, and that in future years we shall have fair as well as sturdy A. M's, A. B's. and Ph. D's. Just when this golden age will arrive, cannot be safely predicted, nor may the present generation hope to see it. Yet, when we look at the debatable point logically, a point at which...
...nothing more nor less than deliberate fraud, and fraud, too, against the offender's own fellow students. However, such a case, from necessity, must be so rare an occurrence among those who profess to be gentlemen, that we but briefly call attention to it, before dismissing it from mind...
...college poets, one instinctively divides the mass into two classes ; poems of love, and poems of woe. To be sure, there are a great many verses which do not come under either of these heads, but all in all, it is a useful distinction to keep in mind. Before one has read many of the productions that this year in particular has brought fourth, still another class comes into prominent notice, embracing both the other divisions, which may be fitly characterized as the ridiculous. A few of the verses coming under this head are worthy (from their utter lack...
...convinced against his will," the old proverb runs, "has the same opinion still," and we are faint to believe that this defiant attitude represents the present state of mind of our brethren of the News. "To show that we were right in the grounds we took," says the News, after reading our disproof of their editorial, "we published some facts which we obtained with great care, and which we know to be accurate." How accurate these "facts" were, our readers had an opportunity of judging by reading the letters we published, written by the managers of the teams called...
...your second inquiry, about Sabbath attendance at church, I should desire the fuller light that I should have to get, were I elected an overseer, from my associates, before finally making up my mind. Everything, or rather many things, have changed greatly since I was an undergraduate-the age of students among them...