Word: standings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon the pleasing prospects for young graduates: "The announcements of approaching college commencements herald another harvest of baccalaureates, doctors and lawyers. There is no need to ask what is to become of them. The professions, like horse-cars, have always room for one more, though some will have to stand or simply cling on as best they can. A goodly number of these coming graduates, like too many that have gone before them, are, no doubt, strongly impressed with a sense of their utility or their singular fitness for life in what they regard as the more civilized portion...
...English 7 and 8. These courses are not only adapted to special work in their subjects, but to men who give the greater part of their time to work in other departments. An acquaintance with English literature is certainly not incompatible with devotion to a specialty. As matters now stand, however, they conflict with important courses in Creek, Latin, Mathematics, Modern Languages, and other departments. The difficulty could, perhaps, be easily avoided if it were not that both the English courses are desirable, and the other courses in the same group are in some instances graded courses, as in Mathematics...
...shape their own courses, naturally follow out this new line of education. Cast-iron rules of education must lose their place as this feeling of revolt against them grows stronger, and it is gratifying, as we have said, to see the President of our university take his present stand...
...ball, so that they may be accustomed to it. This is more than a trade question. Putting aside the preference which an American player would naturally give to an American ball, the question of climate comes in. Ayres' balls are made for an English climate, and do not stand the extremes to which our manufacture is exposed and adapted. A ball will have one bound with the thermometer at 40 degrees, and another with it at 90 degrees. We have now adopted Ayres' plan of under-stitching, and our balls will not cut and tear on gravel...
...least have pure English. In English there would also be a uniformity which is at present sadly lacking in the language used in the catalogue. A correspondent of the Transcript thus sums up the inconsistency of the translator : "It is positively unpardonable that Ensign Man should stand unchanged, when it can be exactly translated by Signifier Homo. The translator neglects also to turn the given name Cotton into Gossipium, Penn into Stylus, Prince into Princeps, True into Verus, Clark into Scriba, Rest into Requies, Kinsman into Consanguineous, Oxenbridge into Bovepons; Greenlief into Viridfolium, etc., and he was doubtless utterly stumped...