Word: backed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...conceivable; but open election, it was thought, meant the assertion of a principle, from which it would be impossible to retrograde. The anonymous expression of regret for the ancient regime might, therefore, seem idle petulance, and call for no remark, even though its author feels it necessary to go back two thousand years to the system of oligarchy to find an instance of illiberality on which to affiliate his sentiments. Insulting allusions, however, to gentlemen who are fellow-students, combined with a narrow-minded misrepresentation of the recent liberal reform, do demand consideration. An unsparing rebuke, it seems...
...laid it over the back of a chair
...kept from burning anything but the Pi Eta rooms and the loft above. No student's room was burnt, but the floor of each was covered with water from three to six inches deep. The condition of the building is such that no one will be able to get back to his old quarters for at least several months...
...best fitted to hold a certain office. It is safe to say that the majority are forced to accept one of two alternatives, - to vote for a candidate with whom they are personally unacquainted, and of whose merits they know only from the testimony of others; or to back steadily the man of their acquaintance who appears to them to be best fitted for the place. As each man's acquaintance is different from that of his neighbor, and as each man's opinion is generally formed in a manner peculiar to himself, a conscientious adherence to the last method...
...Change cars for - " we could n't hear where, but we surrendered a coupon and moved into the baggage-car, that being the only obvious change; and just as the baby was calming down again, we would come to another post and have to surrender another coupon and move back to the palace-car, I, of course, moving the old lady, bab and baggage, every time. By and by we came to a corner, and on going round it saw a calf on the track. It did not move at our approach, but only stared and continued to graze coolly...