Word: openers
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Chapel will be open for those having tickets; no others being admitted until the Class have entered. At 9.30 the Senior Class assemble in front of Holworthy Hall, and march to the Chapel for prayer by the Chaplain. Assemble again at 10.45, and march to the Chapel, where the exercises will occupy nearly two hours...
...mentions some of the "Necessary Qualifications for a City R. R. Conductor," among which we find: "'Far-sightedness,' or the faculty of not seeing persons who wish to ride until the car has left them three blocks behind. 'Love of ventilation,' or the knack of keeping the door wide open on cold nights while joking with the driver. 'Politeness,' mingled with authority of tone, so as to be able to say, 'Now, then, step, lively, old lady; don't keep us here all night!' 'Humor,' or a fondness for starting the car just before you step off, thereby causing...
...Sophomore year. The opinion has been here expressed that the papers of our own University would be likely to obtain better editors by a similar system than by the one now in practice. In reply, we would state that, as it seems to us, a class election would be open to serious objections. A man's ability as a writer cannot be correctly judged from a few articles, which are all that the class have for the basis of their opinion. His unsuccessful articles are known to the editors alone; his writing may be uneven; one piece may be good...
...could seem more real or be more unalloyed. The frosty air of winter stealing in about our ears and among the tangles of our hair makes us the more sensible of the comfort of warmth and repose. The cool, fresh, fragrant breaths of a summer morning drifting through the open window are most delightfully mingled with our dreams. Vainly will others extol to us the virtues of great draughts of the freshest, clearest hours of the day; these we, too, taste and delicately enjoy with a relish that the votaries of, even anticipating the monarch and definer...
That through the open window...