Word: rates
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sophomores from competition for the Boylston Elocution Prizes. The gentleman who edited the Catalogue that year, and who ought to have recorded this fact, seems to have cut out the portion of the old Catalogue referring to these prizes, and to have pasted it into his manuscript. At any rate, no mention of the change was made, and as the example was followed in the succeeding Catalogues, we are still informed in the official Publication of the College that members of the three upper classes are allowed to compete. Whether this is fair, we leave to our community to judge...
...subjects, most especially on sporting matters, and I joined in as well as I could. I had him on the new University shells, for he had n't been down to the boat-house since they came, but he discussed the advantages of paper and wood at a great rate...
...propound the following problem (no one but Harvard need send in a solution). If in nine years Cornell has reached her present height among American institutions of learning, what, at the present rate of advancement, will be her rank when she is - say, two hundred and fifty years old?" - Cornell Review...
Teacher. O, you can go some Saturday when the students are not there. At any rate, I should not like to trust my lambs to those wolves...
...burden of lighting sundry fires and cleaning various boots. It would seem as if this responsibility was not enough to make him absent-minded, yet one would suppose that a tolerably well-brought-up mule would know that a day in January with the wind blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and the thermometer feeling after the floor, was colder than the spring days of April; but not so my scout. All through the winter he used to put barely coal enough on the fire to keep it from going out, and would leave the door open...