Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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BOSTONIAE sunt duo medici - non medici similia morbis adhibentes remedia, sed discipuli Aesculapii veri - Germani, viri optimi, probi atque honesti, artis peritissimi medicinae, quorum alterum Doctorem A., alterum Doctorem B., nominabimus. Licet ambo sint scurrae, tamen Doctor A. Doctori B. praestat. Infeliciter alter alteri invidet, neque alter occasionem alterius petulantibus vocibus consectandi praetermittit. Jam paucis diebus ante cum convivis aliis hospites amici fuerunt. Ridetur, editur, potatur, ut omnes non minus animo quam ventre delectentur. Sermonis cursu a Doctore B. rogatus, ut fabellam narraret, "Fabella digna, quam narrem," Doctor A. respondet, "mihi non est; mihi autem somnium proxima nocte mirum fuit...
...College Days of Ripon is at hand, and is a very readable sheet throughout. We admire the enterprise in journalism at an institution where the Freshman Class "boasts twenty-seven members," and the Sophomore is barely a "quorum...
...upon the societies in College which represent the various denominations. Without attempting to discuss the value of such testimony, it may be mentioned that of one of these societies the members number over sixty, and yet it has been often found difficult to assemble the fifteen who constitute a quorum. The statements which have been made in regard to the catholicity which prevails here are beyond all cavil. Not only is it true that the College authorities studidiously avoid anything which might influence the religious opinions of a student, but the students themselves are not sharply divided by doctrinal lines...