Word: personally
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor F. L. O. Rhoerig, dean of the College of Asiatic Languages at Cornell University, is said to speak fluently more languages than any other person in the world. Several official papers recently received by the State department at Washington, in languages that no one there understood, have been sent to him to translate, which he has done without difficulty. It is reported that his familiarity with the Persian tongue, as well as with nearly all the important languages of Asia and Europe, has caused his appointment as charge d'affaires in Persia to be strongly recommended and favorably considered...
...greatest injustice lies in the assignment of the degrees at commencement. According to the regulations any person who receives honors in any subject is entitled to a degree magna cum laude, and one who receives highest honors gets a degree summa cum laude. This, at first sight, may appear fair enough, but if the subject is examined closely the great injustice is at once apparent. A man who has special ability in any one line, but who is decidedly inferior in general knowledge, outranks a man of good general ability, in whom no one taste is specially developed. For instance...
Some of the notices posted at the Law School are original, to say the least. For instance, the following: "Will the person who through mistake purloined my umbrella please return it to its grief-stricken owner and shout the beer. All will then be forgiven and forgotten." Another notice, posted not long ago, read: "Will somebody please find my knife that I lost and return...
...last week, an arrangement has been made by which all may pay for their tickets before tomorrow (Tuesday) P. M. at seven o'clock. If the required number pay, the tickets can be had on Wednesday A. M.; if not, the money will be refunded at that time. Each person paying and signing should state the length of time he will be away. To members of the society not going to or passing through N. Y. there will be allowed, on presentation of membership ticket at Sheldon's ticket office, 276 Washington street, Boston, a discount from the regular fare...
...make themselves responsible for their exhortations by printing them as editorials, and, indeed, only claim to represent the sentiment of their editorial boards, but the promulgators of this notice had the effrontery to sign it as issuing from "a committee of students," self-constituted, I suppose. Of course any person can constitute himself "a committee of students," and give his effusions this anonymous authority if he desires it; but we would like to have it thoroughly understood that such a committee does not represent the entire body of students in the sentiments it may advance. The remark that "everybody...