Word: term
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Third term, and to be master...
JUNIORS who desire to anticipate the prescribed rhetoric of the second term must send blank-books to the Dean's office on or before January 15. The examination will be held in U. E. R. at 11 o'clock on the 22d January...
...confess to an utter ignorance of the game) as somewhat miscellaneous and peculiar. There is 'Rope,' 'Flour,' and 'four Policemen,' who kept the ground, we may presume, on the occasion of the match on Jarvis Field. The bed-makers at Harvard appear to be called 'Goody,' as a term of general opprobrium or endearment...
...here becomes necessary to summon this spirit from its vasty deep into such shallow water as the elements of logic, where he will learn that affirmative propositions do not distribute their predicates, and that the middle term of a syllogism should be used univocally. It is also necessary to remind him of the generally acknowledged fact, that a cause is not identical with its result. Indifference, a momentary consequence of liberal training, is not the cause of proper mental development, except so far as, in the sense of an unbiassed mind, it is a prerequisite of liberal thought...
...term "sporting the oak" has but little significance here at Harvard, and it would be well if, in this custom as in others, we followed the example of our English cousins. We have often heard, and oftener felt, the justness of the complaint that no one can "sport his-oak" here without running the risk of offending any of his friends who may happen to knock and not be admitted. A student is apt to think, when a man shows he is unable to work with him sitting by idle, and interrupting with a remark now and then, that...