Word: publicly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PROFESSOR SIBLEY has resigned the position of Librarian, which he has filled so long and so ably. The position has been offered to Mr. Winsor, Librarian of the Boston Public Libraries...
...their powers of mind be wasted; they are continually devising some scheme which is to be of everlasting benefit to mankind. Even now they are about to create a revolution in the educational system all over the world, - they have introduced into the public schools the teaching of etiquette. When a stranger enters the school-room, the scholars - no matter how much their attention has been previously engrossed in erecting pins on their neighbors, chairs and in surreptitiously eating molasses candy - all rise together, and, with much grace of manner, wish him "a good morning." When the gentleman leaves...
...Resident Professor Bayard Taylor has begun his lectures on Early German Literature. The lectures are free to the public...
...class-tree exercises, but because of the social enjoyment which the day affords, - in a word, the spreads and the dancing are Class Day. Whether there will be spreads and dancing this year still remains to be seen; but we doubt not that hereafter there will be no public exercises, and that the day will be devoted entirely to social enjoyment. Nor is the change to be regretted, since under the new system both host and guest would take an active part in the festivities; and, what is of more consequence, class elections, that source of endless troubles experienced...
...standard of morality which writers in the Transcript have striven so hard to substantiate. The individuals who were concerned in the affair are liable to prosecution for cruelty to animals, but they will probably escape the punishment they so richly deserve. They cannot, however, avoid the judgment of public opinion, which must refuse the title of gentlemen to persons who participate in the amusements of a cock...