Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...come for the sake of the college education. It is on the latter class that the reputation of the college depends. There is also a third class, which perhaps should not go unmentioned, which is intermediate, including those who come to college because they think it a "good thing to be a college man," who come not so much for the sake of college education itself as for the name of it. Such men may have the honor of becoming college graduates, but that it is an honor to be a college graduate, is due to the labors of others...
...custom of many years, the faculty will refuse to recognize the anniversary of the nativity of him whom posterity has come to recognize as "First in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." To prophesy this, it may be said, required no daring; a thing which always has happened, always will happen, it is safe...
...school-farm if it would disturb her, etc., etc. Her hearty approval of the plan, her evident enjoyment of the cornet solo and college songs which followed, and still more the fact that she joined in and sang with them whenever she chanced to know the air, made things quite social, and the young men showed their appreciation by singing "Sweet Dreams Ladies," in an off hand manner, just as the one lone representative of the fair sex was unromantically, she hopes gracefully, ascending to the comfort of an upper berth. This was the only familiarity, surely a mild...
Appeals for money to found new schools and colleges, or to support those already established, are common occurrences in America. As a usual thing, such requests excite but little comment, but the following, which we take from a recent number of Harpers' certainly ought to command attention by its exceedingly practical piety. It is headed "A Prayer for Royer's Academy." printed on a slip of paper, and sent about as a circular. It opens with an invocation to the Almighty and the All-wise, and thanks Him that He has put it into the hearts of men to "build...
...were all executed in a very business-like manner: but beyond that there were none of the characteristic of good piano playing. The taking Hungarian dances by Brahm proved to be the most popular number on the programme, in response to the enthusiastic applause, the second was repeated,-a thing, by the way, which we do not remember to have happened in Cambridge since the Symphony Orchestra was established. The Mendelssohn Symphony,-the "Scotch" was on the whole very well played; but in the third movement, the Scherzo, there was noticeable a tendency to hurry...