Word: said
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...recitation in English 2 one morning this week. At the close of the recitation this gentleman expressed to the class his dissatisfaction with the way the elective was conducted, advocating reading with expression, and going over less work in the course of the year. The instructor, in defending himself, said that his idea was to go over as much ground in the course as possible, and not to attempt fine elocution and expression in reading. A discussion followed before the division, in which the Examiner was worsted both in fact and argument. It is a matter of great regret, that...
...present whereabouts of the departed worthy, all that can be said is that he is reposing in the shop of the manufacturer. The placing of this window in the Dining Hall was merely an experiment, and as the window did not meet the hopes of the graduates who intended to give it to the University, as regards either its artistic worth or its usefulness, it was sent back to the makers in New York...
SINCE so much has lately been said in regard to a return to the first motto, "Veritas," it may not be out of place to give the interpretation of the second motto, given by Dr. Hedge in his now famous address to the Alumni, on the subject of University Reform (Atlantic, Sept. 1866): "The secularization of the College," he says, "is no violation of its motto, Christo et Ecclesioe. For, as I interpret these sacred ideas, the cause of Christ and the Church is advanced by whatever liberalizes and enriches and enlarges the mind. All study, scientifically pursued...
...they fear the censure of Boston newspapers. I am going to write a letter to the Transcript immediately. If there is any one thing that Harvard College stands in awe of, that thing is a letter in the Boston Transcript. Verily, the press is mightier than - I had almost said, the President...
...Oxford crew, although lighter, is said to be much the faster, and rows in better form than the Cambridge crew, which pulls too short a stroke, feathers badly, and is quite slow...