Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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FROM the calendar of college events published in the World, we learn that March 8 is the day appointed for "opening of medical lecturer" at Vermont University, and that a similar ceremony is to be performed on the 13th, at Boston University. Whether, owing to a scarcity of subjects, the lecturers are compelled to operate on themselves, or whether the classes intend to cut their instructors, has not yet transpired...
...first Bulletin of Library Accessions has been printed, containing the more important works received from December, 1875, to March, 1876. It is the intention of the Librarian to have a similar bulletin printed every three months. The question having arisen whether the bulletins should be distributed among students, it has been decided that if a sufficient number leave their names at the Library as desiring copies, an extra number will be printed for their accommodation, to be distributed free or at a very small price. The first bulletin contains many valuable and interesting works, for the most part foreign...
...opinion so sweeping should carry with it little weight, but there are many who accept a conclusion of this kind without taking the trouble to analyze it. As we all know, there are not two men alike, and when a large body of persons are described as being similar in any respect it is well to investigate the foundations on which the assertion is based before we accept it finally...
...this you will learn when the time comes in your Sophomore year. One or two little rules, however, at the risk of being prosy, I cannot refrain from giving. Never use tobacco in society, and remember before entering a drawing-room always to chew cloves or something of a similar nature. Be particular in little things; do not throw off your collar because you are warm, nor take off your collar because it has begun to melt. Such small points are too apt to be laughed at at Neophogen as over-refinements. Be careful, yet simple in your dress...
...would be most apt to be looked up are the very men who treat the Class Secretary to three lines, or return the immaculate sheets free from hieroglyphics but somewhat the victims of misplaced confidence. If the present graduating class should give up the old plan and adopt one similar to that proposed, its class-book might contain considerable valuable data, and not be a treasury of trash and nonsense...