Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...greatly diminished, the next Senior Class might expect to have the same privilege. We think that two considerations have been overlooked. In the first place, the experiment will be tried next year under peculiarly unfavorable auspices, simply because it is an experiment. The reaction so common under all similar circumstances, when any restraint is first removed, will probably take place, and the students will probably be very generally irregular in their attendance, while, as is well known to all, the members of each class are powerfully influenced by the advice and traditions they receive from their predecessors, and hence...
...BOSTON man was cursing an editor the other day when he fell dead. Several similar instances have lately been reported. Men should be careful in speaking of anything sacred...
...friend once said to me, "Two fellows, to room together happily, must either be very similar in tastes and pursuits, or else totally different: in the first case, they will agree and be together in almost everything; in the second, each will follow his own course, unhindered by the likes or dislikes of his chum...
...natural transition from the common schools to the high schools, and from these last to the colleges. Scholars who wish to make their course complete, generally follow through the grades of these schools. They rise, insensibly, by examinations, from the primary school to college. With us there is nothing similar. Primary instruction is enclosed within an impassable barrier. The scholar who goes to a primary school can keep on going all his life; he will never pass on to that which is the object of secondary instruction. And the schoolmaster will remain a schoolmaster to all eternity...
...President then introduced the chorister, Mr. S. H. Jecko, who responded with "Lowlands," the chorus of which was rendered with great spirit by all present. The great improvement of the chorus singing on that of similar occasions in the past was due entirely to Mr. Jecko's efforts previous to the evening of the supper, and the arrangement he adopted in seating a number of the best singers of the class around...