Word: openings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Post-office will be open on Sundays from nine...
...Scratch Races will take place Saturday, October 13, at 11.30 A.M., over the boat-house course. The book for entries is now open at Richardson's; it will be closed Friday evening. The entrance-fee is fifty cents, as usual...
...Seniors have Psychology, Geology, and Political Economy as the required studies of the present term. Eleven "optionals," with four lessons per week in each, are open to them...
...open question whether the restricted course necessary for the aspirant to honors, though undoubtedly exerting a stimulating and concentrating influence on the mind, may not, by the very narrowness of the curriculum and the continual contemplation of merely one subject or set of subjects, defeat the object of honors by warping, more than disciplining and cultivating, the mind. Undoubtedly the age and antecedents of the student determine the advisability of such a course. All that can safely be said is that, for a man of little general reading, little knowledge beyond the text-books of the first two years...
...Eliot in calling in the service of the police on Commencement night; that it was utterly unnecessary, and was a direct insult by degrading the class to the level of so many criminals. We should have been pleased to see more respect paid to the graduating class, and less open obsequiousness to the Presidential party at Commencement Dinner. For ourselves, we reserve our opinion as to the insult, but we acknowledge our blindness as to the necessity of such a summary step, and venture to say that probably the College would not be to-day under the necessity of repairing...