Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would like to call attention, editorially, to a communication which recently appeared in our columns in regard to the "new books." Under the present arrangements, new books can be kept out for the regular period of four weeks, just as is the case with old books. It is obvious, however, that in the great majority of cases, new books are in a much greater demand than old books, and that the same rules should govern the distribution of both is manifestly unfair. In a number of public libraries where books are kept out regularly two weeks, all new books must...
...writing to the sophomore year. From this point on, 20 pages are devoted to a sketch of the changes which have taken place in the college curriculum since 1823. From this it appears that the development of the elective system has been slowly going on ever since that remote period, though of late years greater strides have been taken toward the completion of the plan, as is shown by the fact that in 1871, only 14 years ago, the number of hours of elective work per week was but 168, as against 382 hours of electives, from which students...
...state of the yard yesterday, indicated the high point of civilization, at which the college has arrived; i. e. the water period. How long! How long...
...dead and formal use of the personifications and abstractions of the heathen mythology. We have the Devil of De Foe's matter-of-fact "History;" but here the Devil is the old popular Devil with the horns, tail, and cloven foot, which he acquired in the Middle Ages period of his evolution, His principal occupation is to play the devil with old women and other simple people, and we find little new in him. This same Devil has appeared from time to time ever since the Middle Ages. It is he who buys Faust's soul in the 16th century...
...young lady, in a class studying physiology, made answer to a question, that in seven years a human body became entirely changed, so that not a particle which was in it at the commencement of the period would remain at the close of it. "Then, Miss Lisle," said the young tutor, "in seven years you will cease to be Miss Lisle?" "Why, yes, sir; I hope so," said she very modestly, looking at the floor.-[Dartmouth...