Word: resort
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subjects for 1886-67 are: The effect of Military Conscription on the frequency and duration of wars. - The experience of the past half century in the light it throws upon the possible general resort to Arbitration as a substitute...
...experience of the past half-century in the light it throws upon the possible general resort to Arbitration as a substitute...
...these reporters are not content with merely writing what is in execrable taste; newspaper exaggeration does not satisfy them; they not only send in vague rumors upon hearsay authority, and "write up" matters of which they know nothing; but in order to make something spicy for sensational journals they resort to downright lying. It may sound harsh to speak of them thus; but so many falsehoods have appeared in print that all cannot be due to accident. We wish that some measures could be taken either by the college or the papers in town, effectually to stop this nuisance...
...club combines the advantages of a social resort and a place for exercise, and numbers among its members some of the most famous athletes of New York. Every week a "boxing-night" is announced, and the contest is generally well attended. To athletes and non-athletes alike, a visit to the club-house with its splendid appointments, cannot fail to be interesting...
Nearly all college students are accustomed to celebrate in some way their joy at the completion of their apprenticeship to mathematics. Some of them when they have finished the Trigonometry bury it with more or less solemn rites; others burn it at the stake, and others resort to more hilarious performances. At Vassar the middle of the sophomore year closes the study of trigonometry and is also the end of the prescribed course, and the students thereafter are permitted to elect what branches they will pursue. It is therefore an important epoch in college life, and the "Trig Ceremonies...