Word: whether
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pass away. There are many in college, however, who are far from being satisfied with the modified Class Day celebrated by the Class of '77; and strong efforts will be made this year to go back to the old way of saying farewell to college life and college friends. Whether such a return is either possible or desirable, is as yet an unsettled question; and, with a view to enable the Class of '78 to act advisedly in the matter, we invite communications from all interested in this subject...
...have pasted it into his manuscript. At any rate, no mention of the change was made, and as the example was followed in the succeeding Catalogues, we are still informed in the official Publication of the College that members of the three upper classes are allowed to compete. Whether this is fair, we leave to our community to judge...
...what I wanted to ask you was, whether I'd better have it washed or not. Because it looks disgracefully now, but if it was clean I'm afraid I should n't remember about...
...people of C-nc-rd are chiefly remarkable for their great development of brain. Whether this growth is due to the exhalations of a neighboring stream, or to the proximity of a battle field where, they are wont to assert, a battle was once fought, is still a matter of some doubt. A thoroughly impartial examiner might say that indications were slightly in favor of the latter hypothesis, judging from the undue pride they exhibit over certain perforations in the side of a house, said to have been made by bullets in the above-mentioned battle...
...learn from the Bowdoin Orient that a banquet lately given at Brunswick was enlivened by "the wit of Charles Dudley Warner, and the speeches of other distinguished men." There is sarcasm somewhere, but whether it is that Mr. Warner's remarks do not deserve to be called "a speech," or that the other gentlemen cannot be called witty, - this is a question we shall not attempt to solve...