Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...theories on various social problems are of a nature calculated to provoke discussion. His language is often of a sort which would hardly receive the approbation of an old-fashioned divine. Religious topics and scientific facts are frequently introduced at times when their connection with the subject of discourse is imperceptible. His conversation at its best would never be selected as a model of grammatical purity or refined elegance. The name of every by-way in his neighborhood is to him a household word; but he is a comparative stranger to the highways, and when seen there, is usually observed...
Through the kindness of the Dean we have been furnished with the following, - the only vote passed on the subject: "14th December, Voted, That no musical or theatrical exhibition for money be given in public by the students, without leave of the Faculty." It will be seen that this vote is strictly non-committal, and is by no means intended to imply that such exhibitions ever will be allowed; still we no longer have any opportunity to complain that it is a peremptory and complete prohibition...
...once labored under the delusion that a note-book was an indispensable part of a Senior's equipment, and that notes were given for the express purpose of clearing up whatever was obscure and confused in the subject under consideration. Moreover, not the slightest doubt o'ershadowed our mental horizon but that it was the main purpose of our instructors to afford us such enlightenment...
...answer. Some of the details always escape them; and when they are assured that their rank for the year will depend mainly upon these written recitations, they cannot but feel that it is unjust to compel them to write under circumstances so unfavorable for testing their knowledge of the subject...
...Monday next M. Ley of Boston will lecture before the Club on the subject of Beaumarchais; and the following Monday "Le Mariage de Figaro," a play of this author, will be read by the Club, who have recently been presented with a number of copies of this play sufficient for the purpose. M. Bocher and M. Jaquinot have both, with their usual kindly interest in the welfare of the Club, expressed themselves ready to lecture before it occasionally. While all this is being done in the interests of the Club, it still remains a hard fact worthy of the attention...