Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...under penalty of receiving a black mark for tardiness, a worse offence than absence; we recall the monitors rising in the midst of each of the four classes at the same time that the minister rose in the pulpit, registering in the books the absences while the Scripture reading went on, and not always finishing before the prayer began; we recall the cadences of the faithful clergymen and some of their oft-repeated sentences and their innocent mannerisms, such as the opening of the eyes of one of them prudently to keep run of the clock, as the students believed...
...Thursday night the Cornell seniors gave a successful performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The proceeds went to the establishment of a junior oratorical prize fund...
...Britannica containing the article on Ethics, was missing from the library for two or three days. Yesterday morning when the janitor opened the building, he found the book on the steps. The sneak who had taken it was not contented with merely preventing others from using it, but he went to the trouble of breaking the covers and tearing the binding...
...says, with regard to leaving Harrow for Cambridge University : "When I first went up to college it was a new and heavy-hearted scene for me. I so much disliked leaving Harrow, that it broke my very rest for the last quarter with counting the days that remained...
...Yale alumni. The choice of a successor to Dr. Noah Porter was discussed at some length, but the principal topic of conversation was whether Yale should have an elective system similar to the one now adopted at Harvard. One of the speakers said, "I never knew a boy who went to college at the proper time, from sixteen to nineteen years of age, who knew what line of study was really best for him. Yale has recently been compared disparagingly with Harvard, but although she has not at present so many undergraduates as that institution, no one can gainsay that...