Word: year
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...next presented to Amy Robsart, who asked me so many questions about Queen Elizabeth - Lizzie, as she called her - that I mentally vowed I would take a course in History next year. She said she would be even with Varney yet, and asked if I knew his address. I said I did not, but suggested that the Angel Gabriel would be likely to know...
...meeting but one vote was challenged, - that of a man who was an excellent oar, and who had trained faithfully up to that time, but who had expressed a doubt as to his ability to train through the year...
...Physiology and Hygiene will hereafter be given at eleven o'clock on Fridays. By the change of hour, Mr. James hopes to secure a larger attendance than there has hitherto been, especially as the lectures treat of the less technical part of the Natural History 2 of last year, which then proved so popular. It is only to be regretted that the lectures cannot be given in the Yard...
...Either reviewing must be done before we go home, and left to lie fallow in the holidays, or we must attempt to go over about four months' work, in five or six subjects, in two weeks. The only reason given for the change is that it makes the college year more symmetrical by putting the Semi-annuals into the first half-year. It seems to us that an injustice is done by this shortening of the time when review work is possible and most effective...
...Club is kept open during the whole year, - in term-time, till 12 at night; in vacations, every week-day, till 9. With the Oxford commons-system, it is not found advisable to have a club-kitchen of any great extent. Here, where there is actually no place where one can be sure of getting a good meal, a club-restaurant might be very successful; to attempt the experiment, however, a club would have to be very strong...