Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Paul's School has no spring vacation, the term extending from January to June without an intermission...
...alike to the active and to the inactive. The subject is specially appropriate for the closing lecture of a course on the professions. The question of spending times of leisure properly and profitably is almost as important as that of finding a vocation and pursuing it successfully. The term "leisure" has come to have two very different meanings. One man of leisure is never idle; another always is. The former makes his leisure, as it were, play into his regular work; the latter lives for the moment only, and, when at leisure, is also literally idle. How to prevent leisure...
...term-bills are out, and average high...
...officers of the Delta Upsilon for the ensuing term are: President, J. N. Palmer; vice-president, A. A. Gleason; secretary, W. F. Osgood; treasurer, W. T. Clark; cor. secretary, C. R. Fletcher; chorister, B. C. Henry...
...university. A law department will probably be established next year, for which the trustees have bought a library of 4100 volumes. The professors' salaries were last year raised an aggregate of $8000. They range from $4500 to $3000, with a few assistants under that. There are 637 students this term from whom the income is $4000 more than it was last year: and then the university income was $30,000 more than its expenses. Up to date, the university has sold 990,000 acres of its Wisconsin lands for $4,000,000, which sum gives an income...