Word: baldness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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April "Atlantic" now ready. Members will do well to call and examine the stock of books which includes many standard works offered at exceedingly low prices. Among the new books may be found the translation of Heyse's "Paradise;" "Bald win and other Tales," translated from the German of Edler by Lord Lytton; Higginson's "Hints on Writing and Speechmaking;" Blackmore's "Springhaven;" Celiere's "Startling Exploits of Dr. Quies;" Davie's "International Law;" Ribot's "Heredity...
There are many kinds of grinds, Not only the college but the world at large possesses them. There is the longhaired grind, (the sweet girl-graduate) the bald-headed grind, and the grindstone. It is rumored in Chicago that the recent explosion in C - e H - e unearthed two new species, the "hard grind" and the "regular grind." Someone who reads this may call this a "grind," but it is not, it is not even a lie. The elder Pliny was a grind, and Vitellius Spiculus was a grind. But they had brains and it paid them to grind...
...learn to comprehend it, to speak the language. Without entering upon the vexed question of the higher education for women, we may illustrate our meaning by the schedule of studies offered the other day to women in Columbia College. The range of study in each branch consisted of bald text-books, compendiums, grammars. What thoughtful woman, for example, in a good library with one year's quiet reading, would not absorb an infinitely wider and truer knowledge of either history, language or literature than was included in this school curriculum for four years? It is the letter that kills...
...these general, indefinite assertions invariably lose credence as they approach the hyperbolic; hence they fail to carry entire conviction. This was my experience. I saw the necessity of presenting the bald, unerring figures...
...college institution; it requires the interest and approval of the men." What does the Advocate mean by "the men, - those who play Lacrosse or tennis, or those who do not? If it refers to those only who take active part in the games, the remark is merely a bald truism. No man would be such an idiot as willingly to engage in anything which he disapproved of and felt no interest in. But if the Advocate is referring to outsiders, what is the statement meant to prove? For surely it cannot be denied that to people who do not themselves...