Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...door." After having sung this with the customary stamping on the floor, the door was opened, and in came one of the clerks of the University Bookstore, with a little red book in his hand, which he proceeded to explain was a work just published, on a new and very interesting subject, - Political Economy. He wished to call the attention of the Faculty to it. Professor Yellsons, on account of the vocal qualities implied in his name, was appointed to read a chapter of it merely to kill time, since no business could be transacted. Opening the book at random...
...catalogue of this famous school is particularly interesting this year, owing to the great change that has lately been made in the course of studies. The object of this change is to meet the new requirements at Harvard; and as it was found to be impossible to perform the additional work in the already crowded three-year course, another year, called the "Preparatory," has been added...
...decision of the colleges, assembled in convention at Hartford, to hold their first annual literary contest in the city of New York will strike the moral sentiment of the country with surprise. Good men everywhere will view the decision with sorrow and mortification. There is but one conclusion possible in the case. The college convention was captured by the vile emissaries of Tammany. We need not name the methods that were probably employed to procure the bringing of innocent college boys within reach of those unmentionable influences in the great metropolis. The ways of Tammany are dark, and its appliances...
...Magenta comes to us this week under the auspices of the new board. Numerous compliments on the poetry of both the Magenta and Advocate have been bestowed by the college press of the country. To these we would add ours, trusting that all college publications will bring up their poetry to the standard found in the Harvard papers. - Yale Courant...
...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...