Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...society offers a high grade of work in copper-plate engraving and printing. The present arrangement ensures promptness at low prices, as both the engraving and the plate printing are given directly to artisans (not stationers) who are specialists...
...Hart is at present on a lecturing tour through the west. His subject is "American Cities...
...present Robinson, '90, leads in the contest for the gold medal offered by the Athletic Yale Association to that member of the University who shall gain the greatest number of points during the year in Yale games and in all open amateur meetings...
Again, the overseers demand a more rigid enforcement of attendance at recitations. We do not see how this can be more rigidly enforced than it is at present, unless the penalty of dismissal from college be attached to every one who has the terrible audacity to "cut" recitations at all. The third suggestion that "the system of advisers, somewhat as applied to special students, be extended to the freshman class," is just about as foolish as the preceding ones. When a man enters college, he is supposed to have enough common sense-if he is ever going to have...
...bodies. The attitude of this tower is probably due to the insufficient foundations laid by the builders, which caused it to settle while in process of construction. Sienna, the other principal city of Tuscany, is noted mainly for its cathedral, planned to be the largest in the world. The present edifice is only the transept, the nave having been begun but never completed. The church contains the most beautiful pulpit in Italy, and the interior is splendidly ornamented...