Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Noera has opened to the inspection of the public, a new tailoring department. His new method for cleansing clothes by the steam-naptha process is neplus ultra. The repairing and pressing are done by first-class workmen. All orders thankfully received. 438 Harvard street...
...Noera has opened to the inspection of the public, a new tailoring department. His new method for cleansing clothes by the steam-naptha process is neplus ultra. The repairing and pressing are done by first-class workmen. All orders thankfully received. 138 Harvard street...
...that by lighting the library, gymnasium, and Memorial Hall with electricity, the college would save enough to repay in a few years, the expense of the "plant." The students have for years PROTESTED against certain abuses in the janitor system. But our Parliament, with its advanced liberals and its ultra-conservatisms busy fighting one another, and all the rest absent; and our Overseers, "ninety-five in the shade," calm and tranquil,-how can we expect such as these to regard the wishes of the students, unless those wishes are expressed either in the "Explosive orotund" of gunpowder...
Yale students do not generally seem to oppose the ultra-conservative policy of their college. The college papers indulge in frequent sarcasm upon the subject and one might imagine from their tone that the condition of affairs at Yale was altogether very gloomy and hopeless, and that such a thing as progress was quite unknown in the Yale faculty. It is quite to the honor of Yale students, as of all college students, that they are always to be found on the side of progress and in favor of more liberal methods. A lively interest is taken at Yale...
...known, although in all other respects offering the most liberal advantages, has not yet adopted a complete elective system of study. A plan has been adopted recently, however, which it is believed combines substantially the benefits of the old system of prescribed studies and of the ultra-liberal elective system of Harvard. After an experience of seven years the authorities have formulated a table of seven distinct and definite courses, from among which matriculates will hereafter choose one. Each course is designed with reference to the student's subsequent career, and the courses have been arranged after a careful comparative...