Word: actually
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given, a rumor was circulated which reflects severely on the management of the association, to the effect that the authorities, fearing that a large body of men would leave the hall on account of the increased rates, had placed a much lower price on the bulletin board than the actual one; and that the bursar, when making out his term bills, charged the correct price, five dollars per week, which ought to have been posted. As this rumor, if true, would tend to give the impression that an attempt had been made to mislead the members of the association...
...overriding the rules in regard to anticipation. Rhetoric is such an easy subject, and the instruction is so unpopular, that if anticipation were allowed as freely as the Regulations intend, the number on the rolls of the Rhetoric sections would fall to as low a figure as the actual attendance on the course counts at present. When, to avoid this, after having the passing mark raised from 40 to 70 per cent, an instructor deliberately tells a man with whom he is entirely unacquainted, that he should advise him not to take the anticipatory examination, it is bad enough...
...words! How could I account for these things except through supernatural causes? How could I account for supernatural causes? I had not been trained to believe in so startling spiritual manifestations as these. They were entirely apart from any thing I had ever known, and the light of experience, actual or possible, could not guide...
...forget the difference in time. You must remember that, though this is the 19th century all over the universe, yet we, being an infinite distance west of the earth, hear of every thing there several centuries before the actual occurance. We are three hundred years ahead of their time; while Minus Infinity, the same distance on the other side of the earth, is three centuries behind the time on earth. This occasioned a laughable error at Minus Infinity a few centuries ago. We had just found out that the world was coming to an end in the 25th century...
...persons are to whom the credit is due of having made the Junior Class Supper a success? There was a committee of ten appointed originally, but as this number was found too large, a special committee of three was selected from them to attend to the actual arrangements of the dinner. To these three gentlemen, Messrs. Buell, Blodgett, and Chase, the thanks of the Class, which have been so variously bestowed...