Word: onely
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...present action of the College. For just as matters in that quarter are shown to be at their worst, they think proper to give up the ship entirely, and deny to the present Sophomore and Freshman classes even the meagre instruction before doled out. In this one respect our College is and has for a long time been behind other smaller institutions. These have good instruction by eminent elocutionists furnished them, while we are forced to get it at private expense, though the College ought to furnish it. For this reason we are glad to see the advertisement...
...should be put out at eleven, rather than at nine or ten; for few go to bed so early, and most find it natural to get their water and coal after everything else has been done. We do not lay much stress upon the danger that any one may tumble down stairs and break his neck; but, from personal experience, we know that it is very exasperating to come down with a thump and a bite of the tongue, when we have miscalculated the number of steps. The possibility that one may be brought up full against the wall...
...design of those having the matter in charge to enter into a theoretical discussion of principles already settled, nor to give the reasons why one theory is to be desired in preference to another; but simply to describe a system which, having stood the test of practical experience, is considered, if followed, to give the best results. That there is a want of such a work among the lovers of aquatic sports who have not yet joined the College, but intend to do so soon, is evinced by the glaring faults into which they have ignorantly fallen, and to overcome...
...have received the March number of Lippincott's, which is as good as ever. It has a well-written and well-illustrated article on the "Roumi in Kabylia"; one by Professor T. B. Maury upon the Trans-Alleghany Water-Way; the opening chapters of Mr. William Black's new novel, "A Princess of Thule," which bids fair to equal in interest his "Monarch of Mincing Lane" and the "Phaeton." Charles Warren Stoddard contributes a powerful piece of writing entitled "In the Cradle of the Deep." "Probationer Leonhard" is concluded. The criticism of Miss Neilson in the Monthly Gossip seems...
...giving vent at the same time to expressions of mistrust as to our being out, and whose incredulous phiz we finally see peering at us through the ventilator. In what a pleasant frame of mind do we then welcome him with assurances that we bad mistaken him for some one else...