Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seniors commenced regular work under Capt. Cabot last Monday, but most of the men have been doing some work ever since the beginning of the term. The crew is at present constituted as follows: Bow, Sessions, 151 lbs.; 2, H. B. Cabot, 157 lbs.; 3, Codman, 158 lbs.; 4, Binney, 156 lbs.; 5, Baxter, 177 lbs.; 6, Hubbard, 175 lbs.; 7, E. T. Cabot (capt.), 183 lbs.; stroke, S. Coolidge, 158 lbs.; cox., S. P. Sanger. Average weight, 164 3/8 lbs. It will thus be seen that the crew is a heavy one, averaging three or four pounds heavier than...
...into the surplus every year, and nothing ever comes out of it except all payments for repairs or alterations that have to do with the permanent equipment and payments for new crockery. It should be added, also, that when the directors grant a reduction in a member's term bill the surplus is lessened by that amount; and when, as was the case last December, the charges for the third month turn out to be less than was anticipated in the term bill, then the balance goes to surplus, as would also a deficit be deducted therefrom...
...State University of Ohio has opened for the winter term with three hundred and fifty students. There is quite an excitement among the students over the introduction of chapel exercises in the university, this being something to which they are entirely unaccustomed. At their last meeting the board of trustees, after consulting the attorney-general, passed a resolution instructing the faculty to hold, daily, a general meeting of the students for the reading of he Scriptures (without comment) and prayers, at the discretion of the president...
...term "atmosphere" has fallen into such disrepute that it is dangerous to use it seriously. It would be a lamentable fact if the air of a university town were not a little rarified, if there were not that purer ether and diviner air around us; but people laugh at the idea, and arguments break like straws against ridicule. But this atmosphere is very apparent, let us say at Cambridge, England, where each college has its characteristic feature, and hence offers peculiar inducements to men of this or that taste. To be more specific, at Cambridge there are seventeen colleges, differing...
...Oxford Magazine is the title of a new journal which will be issued weekly during term time by members of the University of Oxford, both graduates and undergraduates. The periodical is intended to represent every shade of Oxford life and is to be established as a real and worthy organ of university opinion. It will contain, in addition to numerous general articles, reports of the chief clubs and societies of the university, important Oxford sermons and all university intelligence...