Word: two
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Towards the sea the ships had long lines of lanterns hung from their masts. Behind them, on the little island, the lights of the Armenian cloister were faintly seen. On the land side the two columns brought from the East were wreathed with light; a single band of white defined the arches of the ducal palace, and two or three perpendicular bars of red the columns. The Corinthian custom-house at the entrance of the Grand Canal, and forming one horn of the crescent-shaped harbor, was all ablaze; its body was red, the lines of its architecture were white...
afterwards prove to be. The idea, too, of free choice in one's studies has become rather a mockery by the requirements of the Tabular View, which insists upon recitations in two subjects during the same hour...
...Spectrum is an improvement upon most of the numbers of last year. It contains one or two good "heavy articles," interesting extracts from the diary of a young surveyor, some slight abuse of the Faculty, and a copy of verses called "Dished," which would indisputably prove - if there were no other evidence - that the study of the mere exact science is not favorable to the spirit of poetry. In the course of eight verses the poet informs us that he has been dropped from '75 to '76. "Would that the Faculty had been more merciful!" say the readers...
...conditions on which the use of the hall was granted were, that the Corporation should advance two hundred dollars to aid in starting the room, and that on the dissolution of the association all its property should revert to the college; and it seemed last spring as if this last condition was very likely to be fulfilled...
...order to save us from the humiliation which the failure of the Reading-Room would entail, we earnestly request the two lower classes to second the efforts of the present administration to place the Reading-Room on a firm basis, by joining the association at once...