Word: proof
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University possesses a fine library of about 130,000 volumes, which number is steadily increasing. A large reading-room is open all day to the students, in the main building, and as the building is new and fire-proof there is no hesitation whatever in lighting the gas on winter afternoons. There is also a very good Natural History Museum belonging to the university, and a collection of valuable relics of antiquity belonging to the Government...
...left to the Vanderbilt University of Tenn. by the late W. H. Vanderbilt, is to be used in building a new fire proof library building, and purchasing more books...
...mind the conviction held by the writer, and doubtless by many others, in their earlier years. When we viewed the world from the foot of the spelling class, years and years ago, we were certain that we were smarter than any other member of it. Now we have written proof, that our superior intellectuality was the real cause of our former disgraceful position, and that, in truth, the rest were mere dolts in comparison with us. It was only another case of the ugly duckling without the ugly duckling's good fortune...
Statistics of last year were cited to proof that the allowance of "cutting" is not abused. The average '85 man cut only sixteen per cent. of his recitations during his senior year. The average allowance at other colleges is ten per cent., and this allowance includes absences only of necessity...
...proof sheets of the Advocate which appears to-morrow, show it to be one of the best that have appeared for some time...