Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor in German-"Mr. W., how would you decline gutes, alter, rather Wein?" Mr. W.-"I shouldn't decline it." [Orient...
...meeting. The enclosed account is correct up to the date at which the books were balanced. It is possible, however, as was the case with last year's accounts, that some small outstanding bills have not yet been received, but will be sent in later. These would alter the accounts by increasing the "excess of liabilities over assets" items. If there are such outstanding bills, it is not probable that they amount to over one hundred dollars, at the utmost. Supposing there to be none, the debt of last year will have been decreased by thirty-five dollars, and sixty...
...desire to alter, if possible, the impression given by the leading editorial in the Crimson of November 11, that a petition requesting the extension of the Thanksgiving recess from Wednesday until Monday, was entirely neglected by the faculty. The editorial was, no doubt, generated by the proper spirit, but when we know the true facts of the case we shall see that it has not the slightest ground for its flippant sarcasm. We learn from the best authority that a petition was found by the dean on his table, signed by several hundred names of students in different departments...
...Nevertheless, we believe that this committee has not attempted to deny the plain report of the outrage, as contained in the despatches of the Associated Press. The subterfuge is childish and affords no palliation of the act. Whether it be called "punishment" or "hazing" is immaterial, and does not alter the character of the offence...
...himself almost entirely to the "sign-post criticism" which the former deprecates); granted that Professor Child has on one or two occasions found it necessary to disagree with some of his fellow Shaksperians, - what have all these specious accusations to do with the matter under discussion? They will not alter the fact that the real successes in Shakspere criticism have latterly been achieved mainly by the society which the Advocate affects to despise. The method of study by which the plays have assumed some chronological shape, by which metrical tests have been consistently applied, by which the growth of style...