Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...calls for especial comment Composition is not embraced in the course, and its presence on the examination-paper caused very great surprise. True, the sentences given were translations from the author read, but their selection was purely arbitrary, and to expect one to load the memory with even a quarter of the innumerable idiomatic constructions in Plautus were an evident absurdity. Is it not, too, a somewhat novel idea that a thorough understanding of a Latin author is measured by ability to render an English version into the original, or the original into Greek...
...given at Boylston Hall on Thursday evenings, Feb. 13, March 13, April 10, 1879, by the New York Philharmonic Club, Mr. Richard Arnold, Leader. The programmes will be selected from the Chamber Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and other great masters. The Concerts will begin at a quarter before eight, and end before half past nine o'clock. A few tickets, at $ 300 for the Course, may still be obtained at Sever...
...College rooms in defiance of the threat of the authorities to hand all such offenders over to the police. We trust that when the attention of the College authorities has been once called to the fact that their rules are being violated, all cause for complaint in this quarter will be removed...
GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN was born in the year 1758 under the Great Elm, a picturesque and lonely spot. But his parents soon became dissatisfied with the situation, and so moved to 924 Beacon Street, which was then the fashionable quarter of the town. We smile when we think of this, and how much we have changed since those quaint times...
SKATING.Why can't the Athletic Association give some skating-races this winter, and so help to fill up the dull season? A course could be easily laid out, on Fresh Pond or some other neighboring water, of say a straight quarter-mile, and races of a mile, half-quarter, hundred yards, etc., could be easily given. If the H. A. A. will do so, the editor of this column will give a $ 10 cup for a race of quarter-mile heats, best two in three. Such a race should furnish good sport, and fast time would doubtless be made...