Word: viz
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...suggestion that Holmes Field be flooded has been heard many times by the writer; is there any sufficient reason why the suggestion should not be acted upon? Two reasons why it has not been done in the past have been quoted, viz., fear of injury to the grass and to the cinder track. If it is possible for harm to be done to either of these by ice, the conditions which usually prevail on Holmes Field during the winter are the worst possible and the addition of six inches of water, enough to cover the field, would dimiinish rather than...
...view of the letter of "Senior" and of your editorial comments, it may be well to state that the cap is never worn inside buildings at Oxford by any save the three highest officers of the University, viz: the Vice-Chancellor and the two Proctors. At the Commemoration ceremonies in the Sheldonian Theatre, - which correspond in their general character to our Commencement exercises in Sanders Theatre, - the Vice-Chancellor and two Proctors alone are covered, and raise their caps ceremoniously when the formal leave of the "domini doctores" and "magistri" is asked to various measures. The cap used, indeed...
...have shown, then, that our people are ready for their great sculptor; that the conditions of life with us are in the main there necessary to the production of a great art. We are learning to look upon the nude form in the way that Greece regarded it, viz: as the highest possible embodiment of a man's conception of and love for ideal beauty, veritably the temple of the spirit. When we learn that to have a beautiful and finely developed form requires moderation in life and subjection to the spiritual. then shall we know that the nude form...
...system proposed would tend to prevent the extension of civil service reform. - (a) By appeasing those who demand reform, without really giving reform. - (b) By obscuring the real evil in our politics, viz. the spoils system, and hence delaying its eradiction...
...opportunity of entering the University at the beginning of any quarter will obviously be of advantage to many students. All these advantages, however, might be substantially attained without a summer quarter. This innovation, as far as we can see, will be serviceable to but two classes of students, viz., the very poor and the very ambitious...