Word: monasticism
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Two new lecture courses are an nounced: a course of University Lectures, by Dr. McCosh, on "The Prevailing Types of Philosophy, Can They Reach Reality Logically?" to begin early in the second term, and a new course of lectures, by Professor Frothingham on "Monastic Art" to be given once a...
"Social life at Princeton, or at any college town, can be taken to mean little, except the social life of the students. Of what is usually known as society, Princeton has almost nothing. Life here is semi-monastic; society is that of one's fellows of the cloister; and of...
"There was reason for the use of Latin in the earlier catalogues. At that time students had college names, "just as the monks had their monastic names," and were not permitted to speak English within college limits. "When Comfort and Giles, in running "across the college yard, chaffed each "other...
It is a wonder how anybody could have been found to accept the office of watchman in those times, not so very remote, when beating the watch was part of a gay young gentleman's evening's amusement. Canning, writing a dutiful, though stilted, letter to his uncle from Oxford...
"It is easy to tell a lyceen from a collegien (college being the generic term now applied to the higher class of clerical schools) by his way of conducting himself in the presence of his elders," says the London Times. "The lyceen is a rougher fellow altogether. He lives in...