Word: months
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thirty leaves, each leaf half as large again as the old ones. It will thus be able to contain the larger engravings, which will not require to be sewed in. Though the whole number of leaves will not be mounted immediately, the engravings will probably be changed once a month...
MEMORIAL HALL begins to show signs of completion. The west vestibule has been scaffolded preparatory to putting up the stained glass next week. It is hoped that all the windows will be completed by the end of next month. The glass was procured in England, but the artistic work has been done by the Boston firm of W. J. McPherson and Company in a most complete and handsome manner...
...live at a great distance. To these latter it would even be an expense and an inconvenience. The time of year proposed is that characterized by east winds, mud, and all the inclemencies of weather, and the time thus taken would have to be deducted from the beautiful month of September. It is also claimed that any abridgment of the Summer vacation would be a serious loss to the many who devote it to travel in Europe, or in our own country, Such are the views of what, it is claimed, is at least a large minority of the students...
...tremble before the scientific knowledge of the Berkleyan. One of its poets comes out this month with a poem on the Mauvaises Terres, and freely slings in flowing rhythm such terms as "Cenozoic twilight," "sutured skull," and "circumambient walls . . . . with alkaloid surcharged." Now, we can understand such an expression as "sepulchral tomb," - indeed, the meaning is only too plain, - but when it comes to "Oreodon" and "Titanotherium," - if this goes on, new metres will have to be devised with special reference to the scientific dictionary. We recommend this poem as a syllabus to all who elect Natural History...
...Senior Class has secured the services of Mr. William Notman of Montreal as Photographer. He expects to build his studio on some lot near the College buildings, and will begin to take the negatives of the class by the last of the present month...