Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reader has had the patience to follow me so far, I will recommend to the suffering public in general, and to the Bursar in particular, a new system by which the work of the goody may be rendered efficient, and our rooms assume an appearance of cleanliness...
...more than this, there is a pleasure rarely to be enjoyed in comparing the old poet with the new, in setting side by side the simple, earnest naturalness of the one, and the complex thought, richer and fuller, of the other. Two passages are cited by Mr. Furnival, which well illustrate the contrast: first, the reply of Sir Bedivere...
According to the Record the Yale class of '76 enjoys an unenviable reputation at New Haven. A "distinguished citizen" recently referred to them as follows...
...Amherst Student is more interesting than usual. It contains an article upon "Thackeray and George Eliot," - a new departure from the eternal "Thackeray and Dickens" of past years, for which we cannot sufficiently thank it. It publishes a formal set of resolutions recently passed by the Sophomore class, to the effect that Freshmen shall be permitted to carry canes on and after March...
...Bowdoin Orient publishes a Drinking Song, which reflects almost as severely upon the ladies of Brunswick, as recent articles in the Yale Record have reflected upon the ladies of New Haven. It begins with an exclamation about the "luring looks divine" that "lies" - for "lie" would not rhyme - in "maiden's eyes," and calls upon us to "pledge the maid in sparkling wine." The next verse tells us that