The Story of HarvardLittle, Brown,, 1913 - 255 strani |
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Stran 26 - Latine Author extempore, and make and speake true Latine in Verse and Prose, suo ut aiunt Marte; And decline perfectly the Paradigm's of Nounes and Verbes in the Greek tongue: Let him then and not before be capable of admission into the Colledge.
Stran 34 - 3. Sit alone by himself in the Hall uncovered at meals, during the pleasure of the President and Fellows, and be in all things obedient, doing what exercise was appointed him by the President, or else be finally expelled the College.
Stran 35 - But one day, without being able to give reason for it, he was not so long, it may be by half, as he used to be. Heaven knew the reason! The scholars, returning to their chambers, found one of them on fire, and the fire had proceeded so far, that if the devotions had held three minutes longer, the Colledge had been irrecoverably laid in ashes, which now was happily preserved.
Stran 72 - They were such as the following: 1. No freshman shall wear his hat in the college yard unless it rains, hails or snows, provided he be on foot and have not both hands full. 2. No undergraduate shall wear his hat in the college yard when any of the governors of the college are there; and no bachelor shall wear his hat when the president is there. 3. Freshmen are to consider all the other classes as their seniors.
Stran 21 - The place from which I go hath fire, fuel and all provisions for man and beast laid in for the winter. To remove some things will be to destroy them; to remove others, as books and household goods, to damage them greatly.
Stran 106 - Porter's flip (which was exemplary) had too great an attraction for the collegians, he resolved to investigate the matter himself. Accordingly, entering the old inn one day, he called for a mug of it, and, having drunk it, said, "And so, Mr. Porter, the young gentlemen come to drink your flip, do they ? "
Stran 203 - I should single out none by name, but I should not represent you fitly if I gave no special greeting to the gentleman who brings the message of John Harvard's College, Emmanuel. The welcome we give him could not be warmer than that which we offer to his colleagues, but we cannot help feeling that in pressing his hand our own instinctively closes a little more tightly, as with a sense of nearer kindred.
Stran 136 - Hall), and three-quarters of an hour later the bell rang for a second set of recitations, including the remaining half of the students. Then came breakfast, which in the college commons consisted solely of coffee, hot rolls, and butter, except when the members of a mess had succeeded in pinning to the nether surface of the table, by a two-pronged fork, some slices of meat from the previous day's dinner.
Stran 63 - It is conjectured to have begun in a beam under the hearth in the Library, where a fire had been kept for the use of the General Court, now residing and sitting here, by reason of the smallpox at Boston; from thence it burst out into the Library.
Stran 24 - The new Commissioners of the Treasury have chosen Sir G. Downing for their Secretary : and I think in my conscience they have done a great thing in it ; for he is active and a man of business, and values himself upon having of things do well under his hand ; so that I am mightily pleased in their choice.