Word: occurring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...virtually an experiment must be extremely gratifying both to the Corporation and to the students; and, as the cost of preparing the Hall for the club was upwards of thirty thousand dollars, it is to be expected that the Corporation will see to it that no falling-off shall occur in the present arrangements. The food is wholesome, well cooked, and abundant, but not of great variety. Meat is furnished twice a day, cold meat being given at breakfast and hot at dinner; hot rolls and good coffee are also given at breakfast...
...students, if they have any, for college. It is a remarkable fact, however, that when a country school sends one man, say in a decade, to college, he almost invariably obtains and maintains a high place in his class, even if entering under a full card of conditions. Exceptions occur, and yet perhaps the larger part of the leading fifth of most classes are from schools of no general reputation. The reason for this lies in the fault of many of the most popular schools in the country. Too many men who enter with honor rely entirely on their...
...from the Dean, which exactly expresses our opinion on the subject of hazing; and we have a word to say in relation to the new Commons in Alumni Hall. Let howls and bread-fights become things of the past; and let allowance be made for the jars which must occur in the working of so new and vast an institution. Much expense has been incurred in fitting up a dining-hall worthy of the College; we must now show that the students are worthy of the dining-hall...
...Secretary of the Harvard Cricket Club has written to McGill University in regard to a cricket contest which it is hoped can be so arranged as to occur in May, when their Foot-Ball Club visits...
...unmistakably attain a skill in reconciling thought and metre which is perfectly marvellous. How is it done? And again, can it ever be done without sacrificing something of the thought or something of the metre? As to the latter, in the best works of our great poets, there occur such words as "under," "often," etc., in iambic metre where the accent is required on the last syllable, and "by the," "in the" &c, where only one short syllable is required. Now, if so much is sacrificed of the metre, the heavy material body of poetry, how much must be sacrificed...