Word: almost
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...must see myriads of animals swimming in the water. Thus is the fate of Tantalus added to the horrors of Commons. Some of us, who are water-drinkers, must be carrying around a small internal menagerie, or, rather, aquarium, by this time. But time hardens the Commoner to almost anything, and to some it may be amusing to watch the little creatures at play. If one of these persons is of an inventive turn of mind, he might have his name handed down to posterity as the inventor of some kind of minute fishing-tackle by which these sportive creatures...
...places, the Nine will not differ materially from that of last year, and will be fully as strong. The hour from 12 to 1 P. M. finds many cricketers at work in their small corner of Jarvis, while an eager crowd of foot-ball players can be seen at almost any hour, hot and coatless, on the Common. Nor are their brethren of the oar a whit behind those who prefer taking their exercise on land to going down to the sea in shells. The University and all the class crews go out every day to try what months...
...Forty-Second Congress contained ten graduates of Yale and three of Harvard." - Record. Such a candid confession goes far toward disarming criticism. Indeed, we half believe that the natural tendencies of this unfortunate ten incited them to their disreputable courses, almost as much as the effect of four years at New Haven. We hope that the paragraph will not have so bad an influence upon the size of '77 at Yale, as we apprehend...
...meet these politic individuals in almost every walk of life, and are often astonished at their success; we see them amongst the mercantile classes, find them in congressional assemblies, note them amongst the aspirants after the chief places in societies and associations, Christian, scientific, or literary, and discover them, without the use of glasses, in our college halls. That which most astonishes us is the fact that those who thus court and attain popularity are not always the best or the most deserving of their fellows, and are apt to meet their own level when Time holds the microscope...
EVERY year, or, at the most, every five years, witnesses the rise and fall of a popular poet. His coming is as certain as that of a financial panic, rather more frequent, and, in its way, almost as disastrous; but, though his end is often pitiable, he enjoys, for a time at least, the rewards and flatteries due to genius real or supposed. The papers have always a spare column for his productions, and a well-trained band of reporters and reviewers to invent, or, if needs be, discover, his antecedents; while the reading public lavishes upon him that superfluous...