Word: term
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...instead of the optative. It was supposed that the average student had sufficient general knowledge of grammatical principles, after four or five years of careful preparation, to dispense with comments and questions on the syntax of ordinary sentences; and was able, if not invariably to have every grammatical term at his tongue's end, at least to have enough familiarity with the fundamental principles of the language in question to apprehend the meaning of a sentence, without dissecting it with the critical care of an anatomist...
...failed to attend the requisite number of prayers, because he was absent a certain number of times from church without an excuse, because perhaps he was seen on Jarvis "Bloody Monday night." It is still harder to say that a man must be separated for a longer or shorter term from the University, because to what seemed to him a rude remark from an officer of government he made a rude reply. But when it happens that the charges against a man do not appear to be substantiated, then it is that the undergraduates are given to discussing the present...