Word: old
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...just finished reading the last chapter of that old, dirty, torn copy of Jane Eyre which belongs to the University Library, and which has been read evidently by thousands of dirty-fingered students, some of whom have greatly enhanced the intrinsic value of the book by wise criticisms and marginal sarcasm. The sombre cast of the tale made me gloomy. I thought of my degree and the chance I had of obtaining it. I hastily reviewed in my mind the three years I had already gone over, and thought how many mistakes I had made. Why had I not chosen...
...Library is completed, the "long cards" shall be at once removed to a place where no student or outsider is admitted without leave. Now these "long cards" compose the only catalogue at all complete. The ordinary cards do not embrace the titles of twenty or thirty thousand old volumes, nor the accessions for the last six weeks (just now no accessions since August 20, and perhaps earlier). As each book costs the Library a dollar to catalogue, - according to a statement in the Boston Advertiser, which has never been denied, - it seems but fair that the persons for whom this...
...College Telegraph Company propose to keep up with the times; to this end they have abandoned the old Morse sounders, and, if a number of students sufficient to make the experiment pay will join the company, telephones will be introduced immediately. The rent of the telephones will be ten dollars each per year, and their use on the line will not interfere with the old instruments, should any one prefer to remain an old fogy. Students wishing to join the company are requested to send their names to the Secretary immediately, so that the line may be put in working...
...worst we ever saw. This will do. We do not know how highly cultured the Quarterly's readers may be, but if we may judge of their understandings by the articles written for them, we should say their amount of knowledge, individually, was about that of a four-year-old child...
...Trinity Tablet greatly yearns for Latin services in chapel. Its argument in their favor is somewhat as follows: Our course of study is more like that of Oxford and Cambridge than that of other American colleges. Our new buildings are "after the plan of the old English University system" (whatever the plan of a system may be), therefore we should go further and have Latin prayers, because these are used in the English universities. To begin with, we should like to know how a course of study can be at once like those of Oxford and Cambridge, which are essentially...