Word: offing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The second, and by far stronger, reason why people overestimate the jollity and dash of Cambridge life, is the fact that students themselves often indulge in descriptions of such marvellous adventures of the Freshman and Sophomore years that the credulous are struck with admiration and the timid with fear. An...
However pleasing it may be to some of us to carry the reputation of being jolly dogs, etc., yet the above picture symbolizes the characteristics of a very small set of each class, - a set which grows smaller as the class grows older. The majority of students do not deserve...
THIS bill, whose defeat caused the Gladstone Ministry to resign, was to the following tenor: The old universities were to have their charters withdrawn, and from their endowments a new National University of Ireland was to be established, in which the only requirement for degrees should be the passing of...
At present the only places where degrees can be got in Ireland are the Queen's University and Trinity College, Dublin. In neither of them is there now any requirement which students must fulfil in order to be matriculated, though at Trinity there used to be a law that only...
AMONG the most widely known and conspicuous traits in the character of the late lamented Prince of Erie, was his inordinate passion for making a display. He builds an opera-house, and runs it at a great loss, for the sole purpose of making his name prominent before the public...