Word: scale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students is wanting who are willing to pursue the study. The course comprises a comparison of the land tenures of England, Ireiand, France and Germany, with reference specifically to their economic efforts; that is, it embraces the entire subject of peasant proprietorship, farming on a large or small scale, and other interesting matters which directly or indirectly have no small bearing upon the land system of our country. In accordance with the College Regulations at least four students are required to pursue the subject; otherwise it is to be omitted for the year. This no doubt would be a misfortune...
...dollars a year is the figure now generally given in estimation of the ordinary expense at a "crack" American college; and probably a considerable part of this is to be attributed to the general lavishness prevailing outside. The tone of American life is not simple, and comparing the general scale of living, inside and outside, now and twenty years ago, we doubt if the undergraduates have done more than keep up with the rest of us. The only people whom we discipline into plain living and high thinking are those engaged in the work of teaching; we make that calling...
Amherst has a co-operative society, on a small scale, which is run by three...
...college buttery (a sort of supplement to the commons) with the names of the other three classes. If a man was expelled, his name was taken off the list; if degraded, his name was put below that of a classmate who held a lower place in the social scale...
...senior who has laid the foundation for a commencement part on the ground of honorable mention, coupled with the required per cent on the general scale, and who desires to write a part, may confer with Prof. A. S. Hill today from 3 to 4.30, Sever...