Word: save
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...small there seems to be no reason for any long delay. The custom, too, of giving only approximate marks does not seem to have anything to recommend it. When the instructor has the exact marks he might just as well make them known to the section, and so save a considerable amount of useless speculation...
...Ohio University (located amid the classic shades of "Athens"), Heidelberg College, Denison University, Wittenberg College, Antioch College - the list is truly apalling. The predominance of the title, "University," in such a list as the above is very significant. Nothing seems to satisfy the vaulting ambition of the Ohio man save a monopoly of national offices and a majority of the universities of the country. The "Ohio idea" evidently extends beyond the sphere of politics...
...English cabinet, save Mr. Chamberlain, are university men - seven Oxford, six Cambridge...
...desires of the much larger number remained unsatisfied. In this manner a considerable number of men who came in at the end of the hour were deprived of their breakfasts. This was certainly an outrageous proceeding on the part of the steward, and savors of an impudence unparalleled save by some of his own previous performances. He should certainly be compelled to regard the just rights of boarders at the hall and to provide sufficient provisions for each meal. There is besides, a standing rule that the articles of fare shall not be sent down until seven minutes after...
...Saturday evening's Traveller. The writer considers the small attedance at the Glee Club concert. "Here." he says, "lies a moral: The Harvard Glee Club will draw a full house in any city it may deign to visit. Nowhere is it truer that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country than in Harvard College. Her ablest professors, with lectures which would be read with interest throughout the world, cannot fill a moderately sized hall in Cambridge." The art of writing college songs, he thinks, has been lost, none of lasting merit having been written for years...