Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...petition is now before the Massachusetts Legislature asking that power be granted to the trustees of Wellesley College to confer degrees. It is claimed that this power is necessary to place the college on an equal footing with similar ones. Dr. Clark, in favoring the petition, said "that it was the intention of the trustees that no graduate should receive a degree unless having attained the highest standard of any college in the land...
...hour of the day and night, and now, at last, seeing that it still remained unannihilated, some one has employed violence and has doubtless returned it to its native dust-heap; or, better still, some match-boy, in sympathy with its kindred rags, has put the mat to a similar use with the old sheep-skin which Bryan O'Lynn appropriated, when, as the ballad runs, "he had no breeches to wear...
...advice was to this effect: to do one of two things, either burn the book or throw it into the North River. If some kind friend had overlooked "Student Life at Harvard," the advanced sheets of which are before us, and induced the author to adopt a course similar to one of these, the world would have been no great loser. We understand fully that to paint life here in such a way that everybody will be satisfied with the picture is an exceedingly difficult task. Four years is our generation, and no two generations are alike. Haunts, habits...
...class, and not from any egotistical idea on his part. He would have been happy to word the notice in any way acceptable to the majority, and it was therefore unwise on his part to have sent it without consulting the Committee; but, having sent a precisely similar card to the two preceding classes, and not having received any intimation that the wording was out of the way, he supposed it would be as acceptable to the Class of '76 as to its predecessors...
...membership, it is not a question to be discussed in a College paper; but there are many persons who consider that the matter - somewhat trivial in itself - nevertheless affects the relation between undergraduates in general and those who govern them. It is put beside several other incidents of a similar nature, and derives, in consequence, an importance which it would otherwise lack. It has been pronounced to mark a line of policy which the authorities intend to adopt - have, in fact, already adopted - towards us; and hence it has aroused the indignation of which we have spoken. Nothing...