Word: till
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...short examination which was to come off in Phil. 11 yesterday, was postponed till the next meeting of the course, on account of the illness of the instructor...
...tree down. But in the course of the chopping a portion of the upper tree falls on his head with such extraordinary force as to compel his senses to take leave of him for the time. The unfortunate Isaac, lies upon the snow, till his dog, - not mentioned in the ballads, but which must have been there, as Mr. Cranch observes, - runs to Mr. Brown's, and leads him to the scene of the accident. They bear the stricken man to his home and nurse him tenderly; - fruitless effort; he dies, and they lay him in the cold ground...
...then, when he does get any, they are, or have been lately, almost unfit for eating. The lunch hour is from 12.30 to 1.30, and presumably the food is as good at 1.15 as at 12.30. There are many, who, on account of recitations, cannot get to Memorial till after one o'clock, and they ought certainly to have enough food, and good food at that. But as an accurate fact, on Friday and Saturday, at one table at least, there was an insufficiency of potatoes; and of the few which were served, two in every three were bad, absolutely...
...them. But when the college authorities see fit to fix important examinations for the day before the recess, some protest ought to be made. If we cut those examinations we endanger our standing for the year, and if we do not cut them, some of us cannot get home till after Christmas. The Christmas week and the New Year's week, both entire, ought to form the recess, because they are universally recognized as holiday weeks. But if the faculty thinks best continue college exercises into one or both of these weeks, the exercises should be made as nearly voluntary...
...rooms - aye, in an easy chair, and read our history as a connected whole, working from the beginning - cause and result - and not as ninety nine cases out of a hundred we must have done with the topic reading: - working up the result and leaving the cause till next week? It is not the amount of work merely, that counts in History 13, but the amount of work done in the right way. A goes to the library; spends forenoon in ransacking the shelves, with meagre result - not his fault to be sure, but C's who is ahead...