Word: written
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have the resolution rescinded, and who have come to doubt the numerical strength of their opponents, it seems but just that some statement of the reasons for their desire to withdraw should be made public; and it is with this object in view that the following has been written, where an attempt is made to give in the simplest possible way some of the arguments for secession...
...contributions in aid of various objects to such an extent that they now instinctively shudder when they see approaching them one of those solicitors who with eager eye and hungry look stalk abroad seeking whom they may devour, still, in the face of these facts, this article is written for the purpose of setting forth another object which will demand pecuniary aid from the students, but which has one advantage over previous one namely, that the contributors have in the end something to show for their money. The object in question is the erection of a window in Memorial Hall...
...Chronicle, of the University of Michigan, publishes. a long article on Harvard. It is written in a very friendly spirit, and in better English than is generally discovered in that longitude, by a person who appears to consider himself familiar with his subject. His views on some matters, however, are remarkable. The following sentences are so replete with novelty that they deserve attention...
...reply to the article on the University of Vermont, which appeared in our last number, we have received a communication, which we should have been pleased to publish, if it had been written in a more legible hand and signed. We can of course print nothing with the author of which we are unacquainted...
...Student have reached us during the past fortnight. Two of them are published together, and three of the huge pages of this paper are filled with a biographical notice of a fictitious Amherst trustee, - a notice which is apparently intended to be of a humorous character. The Exchanges are written with a good deal of care, and with a most elaborate effort at chatty easiness of style. Indeed, the effort is so elaborate that the chatty easiness is lost, and the result of the writer's labors by no means repays the pains which he has bestowed upon them...