Word: state
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...HAVE before me the Crimson of March 9th, which contains a complaint as to the ventilation of certain recitation-rooms. This immediately puts me in mind of the state of things existing in one of the greatest Universities of Germany. The writer has complained that "in one case some thirty men have been compelled to sit for an hour in a small room with closed doors and windows." In one of the large halls in the University of Leipzig more than two hundred students are gathered together to listen to the learned Professor Curtius, whose fame is now world-wide...
...have been requested to state that the next number of the Advocate will be ready at noon on Tuesday next...
...HOLLAND, writing in Scribner's, suggests that Yale and Harvard establish a course in politics. After three years of study of political economy, international and inter-state law, constitutional law and history, finance, and diplomacy (a rather ambiguous word), the graduate should go before an examining board at Washington to obtain a certificate of fitness for office. Armed with this certificate, he is to go before the people and take his chances for election; and even if he were not elected, the general culture of the community would be elevated by the presence of such a learned person. A knowledge...
WHEN a college paper reaches the state of total depravity which the following extract from the Undergraduate indicates that that paper has reached, it is time for the publication to cease...
...desire to discuss the much-mooted question as to where we are to look for the standard of pronunciation; we shall be undoubtedly safe if we follow the usage of the best literary society we know. New-Englanders boast that, within the radius of ten miles from the Massachusetts State House there is more "cultchar" and education represented than in any other district of its size in the United States. True or not, we must, unless we are insensible alike to ridicule and the calls of duty, conform to the usage of this neighborhood and discard the provincialisms spoken...