Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...twenty years from now they will be of great value, and if they are ever published, as the verses from the Advocate have been published, we who are now undergraduates will regard them with an interest equal at least to that which we feel for the book in question...
Though the priggish pronunciation "Inquiry" is often heard, I have never known justice to be done to discrepancy, chestnut, or hecatomb since in college, and rarely to romance, finance, research, and resource. I have no desire to discuss the much-mooted question as to where we are to look for the standard of pronunciation; we shall be undoubtedly safe if we follow the usage of the best literary society we know. New-Englanders boast that, within the radius of ten miles from the Massachusetts State House there is more "cultchar" and education represented than in any other district...
...sight to see America's thousands of students flocking to some city in order to be examined. Or perhaps the examining board is to be peripatetic, in which case to be a member would insure one extraordinary advantage in the way of travel. Any one who seriously considers the question will readily see that, combined with few advantages, there are countless objections to a system which shall place the examinations of all our colleges in the hands of a single board. But if the intercollegiate contests as they now exist are in themselves a good, the mode of government which...
...first Bulletin of Library Accessions has been printed, containing the more important works received from December, 1875, to March, 1876. It is the intention of the Librarian to have a similar bulletin printed every three months. The question having arisen whether the bulletins should be distributed among students, it has been decided that if a sufficient number leave their names at the Library as desiring copies, an extra number will be printed for their accommodation, to be distributed free or at a very small price. The first bulletin contains many valuable and interesting works, for the most part foreign...
SEMIANNUALS, with all their accompanying trials, have been a subject of such general and vital interest to the undergraduate mind during the past three weeks, that the question, Are they an unmixed good? may not be out of place...