Word: said
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...GRADUATE of many years' standing, who was talking about the associations of college rooms and their influence on a young man's character, said that he thought that, whenever an opportunity occurred for honoring some one who had become very distinguished and had earned a special tribute from his Alma Mater, an oil painting of him should be hung in the rooms he had occupied, to be handed down from year to year as one of the permanent properties of that room. The present state of our finances would, however, make it necessary to find some less costly transmittendum...
THERE is a Litany Service at the room of the S. Paul's Society (17 Grays) every evening at 7 o'clock except Saturday and Sunday evenings. This Service will be continued through Lent. As has already been said, the Services are open to all students. The length of the Service is twenty minutes...
...course it will be said that Wednesday was an extremely cold day, and that we only stay in chapel for a few minutes; but we have had, and will have again, days just as cold, and fifteen minutes is amply sufficient to give a cold that will last for weeks. Perhaps it is not too much to ask that some professor in favor of prayers should take the trouble to explain what other reasons there are for supporting them...
...WHAT brought you to prison, my colored friend?" said a Yankee to a negro. "Two constables, sah." "Yes, but I mean, had intemperance anything to do with it?" "Yes, sah, dey was bof drunk." - Vassar...
...read Macaulay, Carlyle, or Lowell, and so learn something that will be worth remembering, - Mndev ayav. It is true the conversation when fellows meet socially is not usually very profound. It would not be profitable to take careful notes of the remarks made, for future study. Emerson has said more weighty, and Holmes more witty, things than one often hears on such occasions; yet these desultory conversations are very useful as a part of college life. They make men better acquainted, and thus strengthen class feeling. They cultivate freedom of utterance, and give one a chance to set forth...