Word: proof
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vocabulary, it seems, has been invented in a certain apartment in University Hall. A Junior, summoned to account for absences from recitations, showed a doctor's certificate in proof of his illness. This will not do, he was told; the College is not a hospital. If ill, the student had better go home, and return when well...
...careless he walketh, a proof to smyles...
...striking proof of the great principle underlying our remarks, can be found in the results of a semi-annual examination, the books for which were recently returned. After patient consideration we have surmised that part of the books were marked fairly. We also have ground for supposing that when the instructor was fatigued he counted the number of books, put an equal amount of numbers in a hat, and then drew them. Somehow or other only three denominations were used, consequently a large proportion of the books had either 73, 64 or 46 per cent. That from six to twelve...
...light literature, not to mention the occasional user of reference-books. It is difficult to see why the Library should be closed at all Sundays, unless for the lack of means to pay for attendants, but this, like several other recent improvements, is a step in advance, and a proof that Harvard College cannot afford to be bigoted in this liberal-minded...
...award highest honors to you as a reward for excellence in the special subjects covered by your examinations. And, further, as a reward for the originality and general culture displayed throughout your papers, the degree of D. D., after mature deliberation, is conferred upon you; and as an additional proof of our esteem you will henceforth be allowed to send in petitions on the ground of Catarrh, without a doctor's certificate...