Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Till, on a luckless day, an odor rose...
...Till it hide it in furzy...
...that the graduate is entirely exempt from them. Probably a student may be biased in his statement. Do not the existing rules have a tendency to produce this effect? "Call a man a thief, and he'll steal." The student knows that his assertion, instead of being considered true till proven false, is regarded false until proven true. This seems manifestly an unfair, not to say discourteous, method of treating him. Why should one man's testimony in this case counterbalance that of two or three others. The assumption that a student will lie is paying him a poor compliment...
FROM the Treasurer's Statement we learn that the Kirkland Fellowship at present amounts to about $6,300. It will be remembered that this Fellowship is being established by George Bancroft, who will pay $2,000 a year till the sum of $10,000 is reached, when the income will be devoted to the higher education of some student taken at the discretion of the Corporation from any department of the University. The student thus selected will be allowed to pursue his studies either in this country or in Europe...