Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...American college, like the English school and French lyceum have daily recitations for two purposes,-your attendance and preparation whether you feel like it or not. The theory is that intellectual men, political men, all men of any prominence must apply their minds under pressure to new matter at short notice and for this you are trained, in meeting your tasks day by day. It would doubtless be much pleasanter to both students and instructors, were it differently arranged. The American college is a social institution. It is right that it should be so. It gives a charm and usefulness...
...have of his presence here is from the records of his admission as an inhabitant of Charlestown on the 1st of August, 1637, where he was sometimes "minister of God's Word." He was called the Reverend in New England and was known as a preacher, but as to whether he had been ordained in England or not we are in ignorance. There is no record moreover of his ordination as a dissenter either there or here. In a little less than a year after his arrival in America, he died of consumption, leaving all his library and "half...
...taking into consideration the trouble such an action may cause, it hardly seems possible that any one can refuse his room if he gives the matter a moment's kindly thought. The entire college is indebted to the senior class for the pleasant features of class day, whether any one person cares to enjoy them or not, and the only way in which to repay this kindness is for all those who possess desirable quarters to permit of their being used when they are needed. It is very seldom that any damage whatever is done to a room...
...recent trouble between the Princetonian and the faculty of Princeton college brings to mind a question in which all of us must be more or less interested-whether a college paper ought to have complete freedom to express its opinions. Every one has heard from his infancy the trite old maxim that the "freedom of the press is a necessary factor in a free country," until we have come to regard the press as the very impersonation of liberty. It is taken as a self-evident fact. But when as students we turn to the college papers, and ask ourselves...
...that our publication's familiarly called the "Girl"-I don't exactly see whether our "Gul" was transformed to the remarkable "Girl" through your near-sightedness or perhaps ignorance of orthography, or whether one of those proof-reading feinds who are so common in rural printing establishments, and who in 9 words out of ten substitute one of their own, occupies a prominent place on your board...