Word: states
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fifth is on that well-worn subject, Memorial Hall, and lays considerable stress on the fact of eight barrels of meat "in an advanced state of de-co position" having been seen hoisted from the cellar, and probably thrown away. Taking into account the frequent changes in the weather, and the large amount of meat consumed at Memorial Hall, this fact does not necessarily show any mismanagement or useless waste. In a quasi-supplement to this article, a reasonable statement, indirectly from Mr. Farmer, is scoffed at, and treated with many exclamation-marks...
...last note of the plaintive swan is a sigh that students are not allowed to overhaul the College Library at their pleasure! What a delightfully chaotic state it would soon...
...that the average for Senior year must be 50 per cent, all know. But many students have been in doubt whether it was necessary to obtain this mark on each study, or whether a general average was all that was required. We have the authority of the Registrar to state that the latter is the case. A Senior who obtains less than 40 per cent on any elective is by the rules of the College conditioned, and of course loses his degree. But the required average of 50 per cent is a general average, and if a man obtains...
...gymnasium," and in the training requisite for various athletic sports. Drinking has vanished from "spreads." Profanity, which is "not so much an amusement as a habit," has been abandoned. "Joy beams from many a face," while on the countenances of the few unconverted sits "solemn, introverted repression." This state of things is due partly to the efforts of Messrs. Moody and Sankey, partly to those of a number of Rev. Presbyterian Drs. from New York, and partly to the "strengthening influence of room prayer-meetings." These latter consist of gatherings of twenty friends or so, who converse on religious topics...
...commendable promptness, favored the audience with the overture, which was shortly followed by the "Elixir of Youth." This piece represents the wonderful effect which a bottle of patent-medicine has upon an old lady of seventy-five years, by renewing her youth through successive steps until she reaches the state of infancy...