Word: parteing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...former custom of spending a part or the whole of the year in teaching has almost fallen into disuse, owing to the superior advantages now offered to deserving students...
...expenditures great economy had been enforced before the fire on account of their excess over receipts in the previous year. This, together with the encouraging increase of income from tuition fees and rents of dormitories, has brought the year's expenditures in this department, including the payment of a part of the debt previously incurred in altering Boylston Hall, within the year's receipts." - Treasurer's Statement...
...sacred precincts have been invaded and the architectural eye has been critically cast upon our College buildings! No sooner had we departed for our quiet homes and the coast was clear, than a part of the Juniors in Architecture, M. I. T. (so says the Spectrum) come to Cambridge to view the architectural splendors which beautify our Yard. They noticed, in University, "the lower flights of stairs, the steps of the second run of which are built into the wall about two feet, and project therefrom about five, without any support at the outer end." The Spectrum doubtless makes this...
...classes was far more than would have been suspected from the columns of the College paper, but within a year the articles that have been published would please the most solitary enthusiast for study. Few of these articles, however, are written by Seniors and Juniors; by far the larger part by the Sophomores. This shows what quite a large number of writers hold as their own opinion, and it shows more than this; for not only the authors in writing thought of what would best harmonize with the ideas of their class, but also the editors in publishing decided that...
...their class that all the raillery of the others was directed. In particular cases "digs" are disliked, because they are socially disagreeable; in the greater number, however, it is because they are unknown that they are sneered at, because they isolate themselves from their fellow-students, and take no part save sometimes that of an envious spectator in the little affairs of college life. It was a construction their conduct warranted, that in their ambition to rank well they were willing to sacrifice everything else...