Word: quarterly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bureau," whose object will be to write "essays, orations and poems on every conceivable subject or theme." The terms are at the rate of one dollar for a single oration or essay. It is to be hoped that the firm will not be favored with many calls from this quarter.- (Amherst Student...
Tutors get very good pay. The average amount, I believe, is about a dollar and a half per hour. Some, however, tutor for only a dollar, or a dollar and a quarter. One of the recent notices set the price at forty-five cents, which is getting it down pretty low. Then there have been those who have received two, three, and even four or five, dollars an hour, which is pretty good pay. But to command such prices, we may be sure that the tutors have established reputations for getting their men through. The five dollar tutor must have...
Guided by the exhilarating smells of boiled onions and cabbage, one afternoon in January, a reporter wound his way through the narrow streets and alleys of a certain Irish quarter in Cambridge. The odors of the cooking vegetables were abroad in full force, and with them were all the pleasant street smells peculiar to such quarters. Our reporter cut his way through them, and at last succeeded in finding the house he was after. He was gracefully ushered into the parlor and motioned to a seat. It was then that the interview began...
...Ripley declares that our college sports are characterized by a spirit that is unbecoming among gentlemen, and that the remedy must be obtained by the students themselves raising their low ethical standard. There is nothing particularly new in either of Mr. Ripley's assertions, but, in view of the quarter whence they come, considerable importance should be attached to them. Hitherto one great difficulty in the way of reform in our college sports has been that at Yale, where the athletic championship has lain, public sentiment has been unwilling to admit that the need of reform existed. Thus...
...with me in what I am about to say. We sympathize fully in regard to the object at which the young gentlemen arm. It is, in our judgment, impolitic, if not unjust, to require attendance at prayers of all undergraduate 8 rooming within a half-mile, or within a quarter mile of the chapel. There ought to be a provision by which students over twenty-one, and the parents of those under twenty-one could obtain release from the requisition. It would give reality to the religious import of attendance. At Antioch a student to whom I gave permission...