Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their hearty concurrence; the members of the community, therefore, in general and the parents and guardians of the students in particular, it is not doubted will be well pleased with some late regulation made by the corporation and overseers, to introduce economy in dress, and will readily perform their part in carrying them into effect...
...receives the names and fees of candidates for the public examinations, and plays a conspicuous and highly amusing part in the ceremony of conferring degrees. After each batch of new-made graduates have had a Latin incantation mumbled over them by the Vive-Chancellor, two Proctors-in the presence not only of University officials and students but also of any outsider how chooses to look on sheepishly stride up the long room and back again without saying or doing anything. At first there is an attempt at solemnity in their gait, but after the senseless exercise has been repeated...
...examinations ought to be reserved for Frenchmen-for those who "pay taxes; the blood tax above all." They would not go so far as to demand the exclusion of foreigners from the various lectures or courses, but they would like to see them denied the privilege of taking part in the competitive examinations. -[N. Y. Post...
...companion piece to the specimens of weird translations which we recently printed, we offer the following examples of grotesque learning, as shown on the part of our English cousins. They are given on the authority-of the Rev. Charles W. Stubbs, who writes to the Pall Mall Gazette: "I can vouch for the boba-fides of the following, which I have met with during the last two or three years as examiner in the Cambridge local examinations: 1. 'Pitt was a great statesman; Fox was a ditto, he wrote a very good book of martyrs. Pitt and Fox both died...
...beds sich a nice soft blanket, sor, that I knowed it wud make him well, sor; so I jest borrowed it fer a day or two, sor, and it cured him completely. I've always felt so grateful loike ter that blanket that I've niver been able ter part with it at all at all, sor. Mebbe it was yourn, sor. With tears in me eyes, I wants ter thank...