Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weekly average of the price of board at Memorial for this term will be charged on the term bills...
...course of nine lectures on the Civil War, will be delivered before the Historical Society next term...
...following are the officers of the H. P. C. for the next term: W. H. Goodwin, President; T. J. Coolidge, Jr., Vice President; W. C. Sturgis, Secretary; L. V. LeMoyne, Treasurer; T. M. Osborne, Chorister; W. A. Gardner, K.; T. R. Plummer, Artist; W. W. Mumford, Librarian...
...material fevers among the students at Yale College is puzzling the Faculty, the members of which, one and all, aver that the sewerage and drainage of the college buildings are perfect, and that they cannot account for the unusual illness that has prevailed amony the students thus far this term. The reports of deaths have, however, been exaggerated. But two student have died of typhoid fever. and one of these contracted the disease abroad during vacation. There are now and have been a number of students more or less ill from malarial fever, but there is no great alarm...
...word from English literature at or before the time of Dryden shows that it cannot possibly be "American" in origin; evidence of its continued use by British writers during the last century and the present proves the impossibility of its being an Americanism in any sense of that term. Indeed, evidence and proof should hardly be mentioned in relation to this showing. Of words and phrases which have such origin and history as has just been specified, it is simply to be said that they are English. To stamp a word or a phrase as an Americanism, it is necessary...