Word: paged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty. That a fight would soon be made by the socalled opponents of Greek has been expected for some time. The plans of these liberals are rapidly taking definite shape, and what they propose to do in case they find themselves in the majority, is stated on the first page. Whether this plan will work the most good to the university many will no doubt question; but that it will attract a large number of students to Harvard is most probable, and in this way at least, the change will conduce to the advantage of the university...
...semi-annual election of officers of the chess club of '88, E. S. Milliken was elected president, H. Page, vicepresident; W. Bolster, treasurer; S. F. McLean, Secretary...
...related that the last time Mr. Gladstone went to Nice to recuperate, a friend found him in the garden one day writing page after page of what seemed to be an important public dispatch. He apologized for the interruption. "Not at all," said the prime minister; "I am only writing in reply to an Eton boy who wrote to me on a point in Homer." He confessed that he did not know his questioner; but it was a pleasure for an old Etonian to spend his holiday in satisfying the desire for knowledge...
...English 12 who find it hard to write a page of MS a day will be pleased (?) to know that Alexandre Dumas would not have quite finished his works, if he had written fifteen pages (each of two hundred words) every day for twenty-two years...
...Todd of New Haven, in a discussion on the Greek question, remarks that he does not believe there's a professor in Yale College to-day that can translate at sight, and without recourses to well-thumbed lexicons, a page of Greek or Latm with which he has had no previous acquaintance...