Word: presentatives
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...good or bad fortune of the present age to be one of intellectual tumult and revolution. The Christian world, like a man just awakening to the knowledge of his own faculties, has begun to question the truth of what it has been taught to accept as dogma. On the one hand, science, made confident by its recent achievements, assails the very foundations of the Christian religion, rejecting with scorn testimony and proof which require standards of judgment other than those of the exact sciences; while, on the other, literature, or rather the champion of the "literary theory of culture," refuses...
...course is especially designed for members of the present Freshman Class, but Sophomores can take it for the whole of their Junior year in place of a three-hour elective for half the year. It is considered advisable by those having authority, that men who intend to devote much time to history either next year or the year following, should take this course in German...
...company present was not numerous, and, as the event proved, all the more agreeable on this account, for the social and informal nature of the affair was its great charm...
...with the Academic Freshmen. Moreover, no Freshman crew sent delegates to the convention at Worcester, so that even the frail plea that, by consenting to the action of the convention, the Freshman classes are bound to follow the lead of the University crews is taken away. The only Freshman present, we understand, was the president of the convention, Mr. Cook of Yale, and he represented the College, not his class...
...been taken to destroy the canker-worms which have appeared in such myriad numbers upon the elms in the College Yard. These trees, in which we justly take so much pride, are being stripped of their verdure, and by Class Day, instead of their usually abundant foliage, they will present nothing but withered leaves and barren branches. A lack of shade, should that day be a sultry one, together with worms swinging from every branch, liable at any moment to find a temporary lodgement on the passer-by, will prove a serious barrier to the usual promenading indulged in then...