Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sure always to be the last one entering a car; it is much better than crowding in to get a seat only to give it up to some lady who enters later, for you certainly have had enough experience to know that students are always expected to stand...
...Maude is a student of philosophy, and, with a truly Spencerean somersault of logic, he reduces me ad absurdum. The burden of his proof is that "J. N. M." contradicts himself. Think of this! I charge the Brethren with halfness, with not having bravery enough to take a decided stand, either Orthodox or Liberal; with leaving its constitution in such a way that no Unitarian or Universalist can, with self respect, join the society - for such could be members not by virtue of a clean-cut statement of the constitution, but by its "fair" interpretation, which means by twisting...
...dozen undergraduates from Columbia and not one dozen from Harvard were in attendance. The whole number of people attracted from out of town was less than 200, and the New Londoners themselves very generally ignored the show. Exactly 162 tickets were sold to the grand stand, which was constructed at a cost of $1,200, and had a seating capacity for 3,000 people. The direct money loss of the managers is known to have exceeded $500, and is believed by them to have been nearer $800. Even had the attendance of spectators been large enough to make the receipts...
WHEN the editorial in another column - Fine Arts I - was written, the writer did not know that a water-stand had been put in the room...
...system of giving degrees of different grades certainly is worthy of the praise it has received, but a case has arisen which the "Rules and Regulations" evidently have omitted to provide for. As the rules now stand, a student who enters College Sophomore year, and does not take enough studies in any one branch to get honorable mention, may have an average of 84 1/2 per cent and yet receive only an ordinary degree; in fact, a poorer degree than the four-years student with 65 per cent and an honorable mention. To draw the line still more sharply...