Word: parteing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SOPHOMORE who takes Italian I found cetera desunt written at the end of his examination-book, and replied to a friend's inquiry, that the first part of his book was a good deal marked up, but the instructor had written that the rest was decent...
...very anxious to know what the success of their work has been; and a knowledge of marks has an influence rather beneficial than otherwise upon all. If the mark is high, it is an incentive to push on, in hope of the Phi. B. K., or of a Commencement part, or at least of the Rank List. If it is low, it is equally an incentive to improvement, for nobody likes to fall behind his old standard, and the idea of a condition is universally unattractive...
Still I cannot but feel that a large part of the lack of interest is caused by the unfortunate choice of subjects. Undoubtedly, to the fledgling's eye, there is something very picturesque and poetic in a fading daisy, but as long as your readers refuse to see it, you had better keep your lucubration in your portfolio...
...customary well-dressed and eminently respectable audience which usually attends any performance of the Harvard student assembled last Saturday evening in Beethoven Hall, Boston, to witness some theatricals given in part by graduate members of the Hasty Pudding Club for the benefit of the New England Hospital...
...weeks, repeatedly signified their approbation of it by much laughter and applause, - and Boston audiences are supposed to be au fait in such matters; but it seems as though it would have been a cause of much delight to the undergraduate mind had the young woman who sustained the part lumped the whole thing, so to speak, and by taking the entire bottle at one draught, converted herself into an infant in a much shorter space of time, and not prolonged the agony by dragging it through five scenes. The scene where she appeared as a romping school-girl...