Word: says
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intelligence (and our imagination as well sometimes); but every student has a sympathy with certain parts of his work, and takes more interest in those parts than in others. He would perfer always to dilate upon these favorite topics. Under the old system it was as Cicero would say "bull-luck" whether he had a chance or not. Under the new regime he can show himself to better advantage...
...last Glee Club-Pierian concert a young lady was overheard to say "How nicely the Pi Eta band plays...
...Brown University boat club is in debt to the amount of $1200. The students say that the debt must be paid off before the crew engages in any more races...
Prof. Goodwin, whose bright face brought out a loud welcome, after thanking the gentlemen for their kind reception, said he could not sit still and hear these statements. The gentleman entered on a humerous speech, and, after creating repeated laughter, went on to say that 30 years ago five teachers were sufficient to teach Latin and Greek. Now the whole is elective, and ten men work harder than those five did. They gave only 28 hours a week in new instruction, and then, perhaps, half of them were not actually devoted to new instruction, and now 87 hours were given...
...Captain Glazier might have gone on to the end of his days writing apochryphal reminiscences of the war and we would have nothing to say; he might have told all sorts of imaginary stories of adventure on the plains, and along the rivers of our continent, and it would have been none of our business; he might have lectured himself into fame and fortune without a word of protest from us. But when he began to pervert the history and distort the geography of our continent to gratify his ignorant conceits and base ambitions, it began to come within...