Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seventeen for the degree of Ph. D., and three for that of S. D.; and this number would doubtless be largely increased next year, were it not for the one blemish in the system which needs remark. By the present system candidates for degrees are required to stay in Cambridge for a fixed term of years after having been admitted to the degree of B. A. While fully recognizing the necessity of this requirement for graduates of other colleges, it seems to us that this necessity does not exist for those who have already passed four years in Cambridge. Many...
...strives to stay its headlong plunge; it begs...
...stay, but for a moment, ere 't is whirled...
...shall stay. My waters change...
...Harvard College was prepared to make as serious a move again, when the exigencies of the country really needed it; but, meanwhile, meant to stay where she was, maintaining her own native and self-created policy, in spite of all the cries for novelty and so-called improvement from that part of the community which favored the brand-new institutions of the day, grinding out A. B.'s by patent machinery. They might leave out Harvard College in the cold if they chose, and stigmatize her studies, her habits, her buildings, her societies, as old-fashioned. Sooner or later they...