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Word: aright (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that, because of a little apathy on the part of the crew, we should run the risk of defeat while we still have such splendid stuff in college. We trust that the officers of the H. U. B. C. will be able by their persuasion to settle the matter aright, and that the crew of '79 will not by any hasty action break up an University Eight which has been recognized as the best that ever represented an American college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...paint thee aright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE PICTURE. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

...held that a better understanding of nature, a closer investigation of the facts upon which the theory is based, would make many renounce it, and therefore has, with this point in view, pursued the policy of increasing our knowledge of nature, - believing that a more enlightened intelligence would set aright distorted facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AGASSIZ. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

...these accounts follow that no young man who aspires to a high standard of excellence should venture into public life. If the republic is now suffering from maladministration, the fault is theirs (if such a class there be) who, while having the wisdom and the character to guide her aright, decline to develop their qualities more palpably to the public eye. "There is such a thing as being so fastidious about means as never to be able to reach a practical end. There may likewise be a form of conditional sluggishness which covers an aversion to the labors and obligations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PHI BETA KAPPA ORATION, | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

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