Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- It is proposed to have '88 establish a precedent by founding a new and much needed Freshman institution-a Glee Club. In a college like ours, there is undoubtedly need for more than one Glee Club. Who, then, can more properly inaugurate such a movement than the...
...between the translations of the classics turned out from Mr. Bohn's library and those turned out from Mr. Nisard's collection!" using it as an illustration of the lack of literary training among the men who do such work in England. And though since then better scholars have occasionally done excellent translations which have appeared in Mr. Bohn's various series, yet much the larger number of "Bohn's" translations are comparatively worthless; and it is astonishing that readers with any literary training themselves can fail to see this-to feel it, even when they do not know...
There are one or two customs of unique character retained at Oxford during Christmastide. At Magdalen College a quaint and remarkable entertainment is given on Christmas Eve. The company assemble in the college hall about nine o'clock in the evening, and the choir at once proceed to sing part...
The annual convention of the intercollegiate branches of the Young Men's Christian Association is to meet this year at Cambridge. The Christian Brethren, although not strictly a branch of the association, will act as hosts, and do the honors of the occasion. The dates of the convention are February...
A pamphlet entitled "A Sketch of the University of Virginia" has recently appeared, from which we learn, with some astonishment, that of the gifts it has received since its establishment in 1819, amounting to $719,000, $653,000 have been contributed since the war-a fact of which the moral...