Word: weeklies
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Seniors have petitioned for less work. They now have eighteen hours a week...
...have often heard me speak. He had a great deal more money than he knew what to do with; and, as a natural consequence, he patronized the best (i. e. most expensive) tradesmen that he could find. His clothes were always of the newest cut; his cravats a week or two ahead of anybody else; his cigar-boxes and wine-bottles had the most recherche labels in the world; and his mantel-piece was covered with autograph portraits of the leading theatrical celebrities of the day. But with all this magnificence, Smith knew absolutely nothing. His tailor sent...
FROM time to time certain disturbances take place in Cambridge, of which the authors are probably students; and last week an unusual violation of private property occurred in the abstraction of a skeleton from the Natural History Museum. Whether the Faculty have taken any steps to discover the guilty parties is not known, but one thing is sure. Whatever steps the governing body might take against the thoughtless perpetrators of this boyish mischief would be sure to be unpopular among the great body of the students. Harsh measures, as has been well shown on various occasions, only stir...
...student is an adult able to take care of himself and responsible for his own conduct in the same way and to the same extent as any other citizen." Now, inasmuch as the ordinary citizen is not compelled, early in the morning, to "run and worship God" on week-days; nor on Sundays to "attend morning service and remain during the entire service," the World fails to see why we Harvard citizens should be obliged to do so. It blames particularly Emerson for "coming down from Concord to oppose a motion for the discontinuance of morning prayers," and James Freeman...
...pamphlet containing the elaborate exposition of our elective system, page 5, under the heading "Latin," stand the following words:- "Tacitus. - Suetonius. - Juvenal. Three times a week...