Word: renderings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this fact. In the second half of their Sophomore year our fellow-students are required to devote a portion of their time to the study of the subjects in question, and, if they do not neglect their work, it is reasonable to suppose that they will learn enough to render them intelligent and useful members of the political community. The comments of a skilled instructor during a four months' course would be more beneficial than the disconnected arguments of more or less unpractised debaters during as many years...
...seriously, all that is possible should be done to render our rooms agreeable. There should be two goodies to share the work, - one to make the beds and do what most requires neatness, while the other should carry out the ashes, etc.; and the number of superintendents should be so increased that each goody should feel liable to a weekly or daily inspection, so that, if ignorant, she might be properly taught. But of course Harvard is too poor; and when I count up the different improvements which instructors and students desire, as well as all the advantages of instruction...
...first-named class cannot go into public life, let the second be encouraged to do so; here is a sphere for them where their means will render them sufficiently independent to regard their political position in a light that is not one of money-making. Our great want in office is for men of intelligence, reputation, and social position, who, having honor to lose themselves, will have regard for the honor of their country...
...general use and frequent abuse of this excellent word render a word upon it very desirable. It is a term altogether too expressive to be cast aside; yet at the same time it will never do to permit it to be universally applied. A world full of scrubs would be a sorry world...
HORACE.THE French Club, organized at the beginning of last year to afford an opportunity for practice in conversational French, has completed its first year, during which there have been a number of very entertaining meetings. It has been deemed advisable, however, to render the meetings more interesting and beneficial by more regular literary exercises. In future the members will read at each meeting a comedy, the parts being assigned a week in advance. The committee has selected for the next meeting "Le Medecin malgre lui," and will continue to choose, in the broad field of French comedy, the most attractive...