Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...arrive at effecting reforms in our instruction? Those who see in the state the only savior address themselves to it. For my own part, I do not think that the state can accomplish these reforms. In the first place, it must be disposed to do so. In France, you know, we are accustomed to charge the government with our private affairs. It is just the way to have them badly managed. We are still in the times of Louis XIV. He says: "L'Etat, c'est moi." We have not as yet dared to reply: "L'Etat, c'est nous...
That a private library may give full enjoyment, the books composing it should not be bought for show or to lie forever unopened, but because each supplies a want, fills its own place in our circle of silent, thoughtful friends. Such a library can neither be purchased at wholesale nor in a hurry; it must be gathered carefully, and during our college course, and while our thoughts are constantly turned to books, is the natural and fit time to begin the collection...
...must be very apparent to any one who has watched the vicissitudes of the various class crews this spring, that some new system of boating is much needed. The constant changes which have taken place in almost every boat on the river, and which are going on even now, two weeks before the race, are very disheartening...
Advanced in the morning, the place...
...supper of the Magenta Board and their friends took place at the Maison Doree, on the 8th of May. The presence of Professors Bocher and Palmer added greatly to the pleasure of the evening. Conversation went on very gayly, and there seemed to be no flag in the entertainment. At last, when the strawberries and ices appeared, the President, Mr. Warren, rose, and after cordially welcoming the guests, proposed as the first toast of the evening, "Our Alma Mater." To this Professor Bocher replied briefly, speaking of the future of our University and of our paper. Professor Palmer...