Word: usefulness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...roll, including members of other departments of the University, and the meeting adjourned until Monday next, Oct. 29, at the same time and place. It has been ascertained that Peabody breech-loading rifles can be obtained from the State in exchange for the old muzzle-loaders, now in use by the corps, upon the proper requisitions being made. General Lister will exert every possible influence to place good arms in the hands of the corps, in the success of which he takes the liveliest interest. Drills of the Freshman company will be held every evening next week except Monday...
...boat-house can be obtained on payment of twenty-five cents. Members of the Club who wish to secure rests or lockers must apply to the Vice-President, at 41 Beck Hall. The rent of rests for one boat is ten dollars a year, and this includes the use of a locker. The rent of a locker alone is three dollars...
...this is a very feeble excuse; for if one were only to take account of the time he wastes each day, it would be found to be many times more than the one hour spent profitably in the manner described. It is another common excuse that there is no use in hearing Homer and Virgil over again when they were learned so thoroughly before coming to college. But they were not then, we claim, understood; they were merely hurried through as so much task-work. It is only in later years that the fine points of these authors are seen...
...Dartmouth has a very clever editorial on the assumption of the cap and gown by the Freshmen of its College. "Ridentem dicere verum" is a weapon of which the Dartmouth editors understand the use...
...love, to use my utmost strength...