Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expeditions into Cambridge or long country walks. Lectures in Cambridge are given in the morning, and to these, natural science and history students go. Most mathematical and classical lectures are given at Girton. Nine o'clock in the evening is the time which public opinion fixes as the right moment to leave off work. Of course this is not always possible, but as a rule it is the sociable hour and the time for tea parties. Trays with materials for tea, coffee, or cocoa are sent round to the rooms; and as every one has a kettle...
...doing, and wished to rid the association of an obnoxious element which in a measure was responsible for the chronic defeat met with everywhere. No objection whatever is offered to their reorganization in the fall, and the chances are that if the obnoxious element is kept out, and the right men obtain control, lacrosse will once more be set on its booming career, and may after all turn out a credit instead of a disgrace to Columbia...
Some students at Exeter climbed eighty feet to the dome of the town hall, and dressed the Goddess of Justice in an old red skirt after the style of a Modoc squaw. The authorities had a hard time in getting the goddess right again...
...representations of Athens as it was about 300 B. C. As in the classical drama, the unity of place was strictly observed. Only one scene is necessary and that represents the street in front of the houses of Micio and Sostrata, with a view of Athens on the right and the country on the left. On the whole, no pains have been spared to make the play thoroughly consistent in every respect. The actors have worked night and day to make it a success, and if it is not so it will not be their fault. The originators have received...
...matter of great regret to the entire college that the freshmen, by losing their game Saturday, have forfeited the right of taking part in the tree exercises on class day. However, although the action of the senior class may at first sight seem severe, it is now too late to think of rescinding their former vote. To give any such action of a class any weight, it must be thoroughly understood that their vote is decisive and final. To reconsider the matter now, would establish a bad precedent and would render any vote of a future class worthless. There...