Word: novel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professors like other men are mortal, a theory which has heretofore met with a very cold reception from the learned world at large. But this case we regret to record does not stand alone. It is but lately that the papers have been filled with the praises of a novel written by a Dartmouth professor of mathematics. This truly is deplorable. The stage and the novel arrayed as enemies of the college ! That so unheard of a thing as conspicuous talent, as genius should be exhibited by a college professor is enough to shake the very foundations of the learned...
...post-graduate department of Yale College will take up this year a novel course of study, namely, that of railroads and their growth, shipping and international trade, stocks, and the effect of speculation on the money market...
...special study for their own improvement. The instruction is to be carried on by correspondence between the professors and the pupils. About twenty-five professors have already been engaged who receive a certain amount from each pupil according to the character of the study. The plan is certainly a novel one, and if successful will become an important factor in the educational development of the country...
...occupants of South Middle having some furniture for sale decided on a novel way of advertising the same. Yesterday morning there appeared on one of the trees fronting S. M. the legend "Furniture for Sale" and underneath a skull and crossbones and the figures "322" (these being the myssic symbols on the pins of the bonesmen). Under the numbers was written "An election guaranteed to all those buying $20 worth." The sign was placed there early in the morning but by chapel time it had mysteriously disappeared. This morning, however, it was hoisted higher up in the tree...
...lodges are tasteful and convenient in design, rich in interior furnishings, forming essentially a home for the society members. Here the leisure hours of every day are passed; the piano and organ stand invitingly open; the convenient sleepy-hollow lures one to recline at ease while he reads a novel from the well-filled book-case close at hand. Here the evenings are whiled away in pleasant chat on college matters or in a beguiling game of whist; and here at various times the students, a choice number, with a few invited guests, devote the evening to a reception...