Word: parteing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...from her mem'ry part...
SUMMER courses of instruction will be given this year in Chemistry and Botany. The former will include General Chemistry, Qualitative Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, and Determinative Mineralogy. Applicants are requested to send their names to Prof. J. P. Cooke, Cambridge, before June I, mentioning the part or parts of the subject which they intend to study. The instruction will be given in Boylston Hall, four hours in the day, five days in the week, from July 8 to August 19. The fee for every course is $ 25, including the use of apparatus (not breakage), payable in advance to the Bursar...
...closely followed. No one is allowed to name a speaker, - all are spoken of as 'honorable members'; personalities are always repressed, and 'hissing,' as a mode of expressing approval, is regarded as contrary to the 'customs' of the Society. These matters, though apparently trifling in themselves, are really part of the 'coloring' which gives the Union its distinctive characteristics. They serve a double purpose, - they give a high tone to the debates, and accustom the members to habits which may afterwards be of much service to them, should they become members of the House of Commons. The voting is very...
...battle of Lexington, Harvard College seems to have taken no active part, doubtless because the system of voluntary recitations had not then been instituted. It seems to us now as if no such exciting event as a battle could have transpired near the College without the students' having a finger in the pie; our only wonder is that the undergraduates did not march to Concord by classes, wearing battered stove-pipes and gowns turned inside out But there was probably no time for the manufacture of the requisite transparencies; and we must remember that the Harvard Drill Corps...
...Cornell Era has an editorial upon military drill, which it pathetically terms "Our Military Inflictions." It appears that drilling is a part of the required curriculum of the University, and that the students are so anxious to get rid of it that they propose to send a petition to the Trustees ("if the Faculty so advise") requesting their permission to have the obnoxious regulation abolished. Apropos of the article on Military Drill in the last Magenta, it expresses the friendly wish that the "infliction" may be transferred to Harvard, "body and spirit," - whatever that may mean...