Word: towards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...compulsory to voluntary prayers was an experiment urged by the students. Its outcome was regarded with doubt by those most deeply interested in the welfare of our University. So far the experiment has been a success, and we urge each man for his own sake to do his share toward making its success the more complete...
...finds something amusing why he should not smile or even "snort and chuckle" if he likes. I am sure I would do so if I were in his place. It seems to me the individual who wrote the attack yesterday morning showed only his own disagreeable feeling toward monitors and not those of the majority of the men in college, and certainly not of the freshmen who have not yet learned to assume the overbearing captious attitude of most of the upper-classmen...
...verse this number of the Advocate contains four pieces. "The Oak" is well-conceived; is very good in form. The writer has a peculiar bent toward this kind of simile and he handles it very well. Of even a more serious character than this short moral reflection is "A Song of Life and Death," which is a rather fine parable in verse. "Love's Arrow" and "The Rain" hardly deserve much comment...
...veterinary school a surplus of $652.22, and a surplus for the Lawrence Scientific school. Among the gifts received during the year there were the following which were over $1000: George B. Dorr estate, $4785.89; Robert Treat Paine estate, $1500; Francis E. Parker estate, $91,504.99; Miss Anna C. Lowell, toward the fund for a botanic garden, $1000; Henry Gassett estate, for sustaining annual dinner of the class of 1834, $1000; Robert Treat Paine, to found the Robert Treat Paine fellowship of social science, $10,000; Uriah A. Boyden estate, $237,387.78; from an anonymous friend, per Mr. Agassiz, $2500; Henry...
...college feel a sufficient interest in this school, which redounds so greatly to America's intellectual glory, as to contribute something toward this fund, the committee who have the matter in hand would be very much gratified...