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Word: offing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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I NOTICE, in the list of the elective and required studies for next year, a Sophomore elective included under the head of Natural History, entitled "Physical Geography, Meteorology, and Structural Geology." About this course I have something to say. I am well aware how guarded

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NATURAL HISTORY, 1." | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

The Springfield Club made the most generous offers possible. They will furnish a tug for the press, which is to follow the boats; they will erect a grand stand near the finish of the race; provide boat-houses for the crews; furnish prizes for the winners; and give a grand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEETING OF THE REGATTA COMMITTEE. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

must be the criticisms admitted into a college paper; they must be neither too bold, for fear of giving offence to the Faculty, nor too mild, for fear of their not finding readers. Usually a criticism upon any study in college, or upon any particular part of it, - either as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NATURAL HISTORY, 1." | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

GRADUATES tell us of a time when old Massachusetts was entirely given up to Sophomores, when none but Seniors were allowed to dwell in the coveted Holworthy, while in the other buildings whole entries were often occupied by members of the same class. How pleasant must have been college life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEIGHBORS. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

And thus it is that I am surrounded by disagreeable fellows whom I don't even wish to know, all because of this new idea, so prevalent among the Faculty, of abolishing class distinctions and discouraging class feeling, and of making the privileges of the Freshman even greater than those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEIGHBORS. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

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