Word: upon
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Leaving this noisy tumult, I wedge my way through the boats, which block up the Canal. Gradually the hum of voices subsides. I pass the depot, where a band is playing the national air, and float out upon the lagoon...
...fable of the hare and the tortoise tells us how the latter by "strict attention to business" defeated one whom the world had come to look upon as her superior...
...feel obliged to repeat to some of our contributors what has been said so often before, and ask them to use a little more judgment in their selection of subjects. To find a good subject upon which to write, we know from sad experience is a difficult thing; for the columns of a college paper, to be readable, cannot be open to a very wide range of discussion, and consequently, from this necessary limitation of choice, interesting topics are hard to be found...
...sometimes we receive articles the writers of which show marked ability, and handle their subjects with considerable skill; and are obliged to refuse them, because they are written upon matters which we cannot, as a college organ, publish. It is no small trial for an editor to be compelled to consign articles like these to the oblivion of the waste-basket, which he does with a sigh of regret that talent should be so misapplied, at the expense of his columns, so hungry for copy. The most favorite subject seems to be "Popular Men"; and these rather indefinite creatures...
Again, it is a great hindrance to a proper choice of electives in the earlier years of a college course, to know, by bitter experience, that implicit reliance cannot be placed upon the electives to be offered in future years. The benefit is small which is secured from a smattering of a score of different studies having no distinct connection and tending towards no direct result. In the case in hand, had not the College been so poor, it would have been possible, perhaps, to have appointed a new instructor, after the necessary withdrawal of the one first selected...