Word: order
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...order to secure a fuller attendance at the moot courts, the Faculty will require an examination on points there decided...
...consider them in order, taking the lowest class, the Carnivora, first. This class comprises all proctors of prey, and it is indeed a numerous one. Its habits are strange, and form a very interesting study, and that you may know them the better, I will mention a few of their chief characteristics. They sit around on benches and pretend to be reading, but beware, they are fooling thee! They sit on the benches, and, having pricked the newspapers they read full of pin-holes, they peep out and await their chance. It soon comes, and as a cat, from behind...
...custom of smoking the pipe of peace. After this ceremony was over the whole class of thirty-two shook hands. It was one of the most senseless performances the writer ever witnessed; the class standing in line and shaking hands with No. 1, No. 2, and so on in order until the end of the game; but it was a fitting close for such a remarkable Class...
...third and last class of this strange order of beings are the Anthropoids, i. e. those having the form and appearance of men. This is a comparatively small class, and I liken them unto the grains of wheat that fell upon stony ground, for they would seem to be capable of bringing forth fruit if they were only in their right position. We really feel for them and pity them...
...America what the London University is to England, and one enraptured journal talks about a grand national University, "where all the sisterhood of colleges shall be united into one." Surely it would be a pleasant sight to see America's thousands of students flocking to some city in order to be examined. Or perhaps the examining board is to be peripatetic, in which case to be a member would insure one extraordinary advantage in the way of travel. Any one who seriously considers the question will readily see that, combined with few advantages, there are countless objections to a system...