Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...existing arrangements in the library. At present if a student is a half an hour late in returning reserved books, he looses his privilege of drawing books for a whole month. Thus a single lapse of memory may prevent him from drawing any reserved books during the entire examination period. This is a great injustice. A week would be an ample period of expiation. Then again the present fine of ten cents a day for overdue books is outrageous. In the multiplicity of things which engage a student's attention he is not at all to blame for forgetting...
Princeton has laid down rigid requirements for applicants for the degrees Ph. D. and LL.D. They must pass satisfactory entrance and final examinations, they must be Bachelors of Art, and must pursue a special course of study in their department for two years, one year of which period must be in Princeton...
...Sodality was founded in 1808, but we are only able to trace its history from 1832 on, as the records for the intervening period have disappeared most mysteriously. In those days "scarcely a sound but flutes was heard. From these the gentle murmurings or liquid trills rose from every side of the quadrangle the moment the bell at twelve rang the close of the morning study hours." The violin was not thought much of, and for the term of four years two violins and a violoncello were the only stringed instruments in the club, or in the college at large...
Invitations have been extended to the leading astronomers to spend a certain period in taking observations at the new Lick Observatory, California...
...forerunners to which more space is devoted. The contemporary editions of Erasmus, of the tracts poured forth in the controversy between Reuchlin and the Obscurantists, of the poems and orations and satires of Ulrich von Hutten, few are wanting. The mystical teachers, too, of the pre-Reformation period - Savonarola in Italy, Tauler and Geiler of Kaisersburg in Germany - are well represented by original impressions...