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Word: muchness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...accepted by the Faculty as a sufficient excuse for an absence from a college exercise. J. W. HARRIS, Sec. H. C." We think that an agent who would offer, about this time, "The Manual of Filling and Pulling," or "Every Man his own Dentist," would meet with as much success among students as the peripatetic vender of "The Science of the New Life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...scene at the supper, Mr. Warren, Gaillardin, clearly outdoes himself, while the other parts are well sustained. Much of the scenery is new and the appointments elegant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...misplaced war-whoop; but the members of the Parietal Committee prefer to take their music straight. In short, the singing in the Yard must stop, unless the window-critics can refrain from their customary vociferous applause. The habit is boyish enough, at best, and can be relinquished without much trouble. Under the circumstances, we trust that we have heard the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...Forty-Second Congress contained ten graduates of Yale and three of Harvard." - Record. Such a candid confession goes far toward disarming criticism. Indeed, we half believe that the natural tendencies of this unfortunate ten incited them to their disreputable courses, almost as much as the effect of four years at New Haven. We hope that the paragraph will not have so bad an influence upon the size of '77 at Yale, as we apprehend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...broken to the hope. We have before us the prospectus of a college that has but five regular professors, and yet the curriculum is substantially that of Yale, besides the offer of a special course for post-graduates." Our limited space prevents our copying half so much as we should like, but we cannot help quoting two of the things which, according to the author, a catalogue should be expected not to do. "It should not neglect to distinguish between resident and non-resident professors, and between professors and mere lecturers. A college may engage a lecturer, residing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

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