Word: parteing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Corporation in July voted that a public Commencement was impracticable, and that degrees be conferred by a general diploma; and soon after the Overseers voted to remove the College to Concord, having found, on examination, that one hundred and twenty-five students could be boarded in that place. Part of the library and apparatus were taken to Concord, and the students endured the inconveniences of the place as best they could for fourteen months...
...committee on the restoration of the library and apparatus reported that their labors were completed, and that the injuries inflicted by the war had been for the most part repaired. There was no Commencement this year, owing to the war, small-pox, and the number of British in Cambridge. For several years after this the history of Harvard is replete with the chronicles of financial troubles, some few of which were occasioned...
RHETORIC, Whately's Rhetoric to the end of Part 2, including Preface, Introduction, and Appendices; Lessing's Laocoon (in the original or in Miss Frothingham's translation), Preface and Chapters 13 - 26 inclusive...
ABOUT the time of Commencement a paragraph usually appears in the daily papers to the effect that "one hundred and fifty liberally educated young men have been sent out of Harvard to do their part in shaping the life of the rising generation." May '75 play their part well! But besides these hundred and fifty graduates, every closing of the college term in June sets free six hundred students, who are soon scattered to every part of this country, and, we may almost say, to every corner of the world. If we could obtain a leaf from the mental note...
...afford to be absent. Such a plan unites the best features of German, American, and English universities. It gives a man every privilege and liberty until he abuses it, and needs to be disciplined. Nothing is left in an uncertain state. Those students who become sensible in the last part of their course to the failures of the first years would have a chance to make up their deficiencies and leave college with a creditable record behind them. It would promote higher culture, and create more interest in studies, than at present; and under this system it seems...