Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last, thanks to the honorable feeling of the Senior Class, the revolution in the manner of electing class officers which was begun last year has been completed, and we shall soon behold the unusual spectacle of an election which has not been made a mockery by previous coalitions or distribution of offices. Under the old system the offices were regarded as the just reward of any artifice or violence, by which one or two elements of the class could overreach the others and secure for a part the privilege of choosing representatives for the whole. Now, however, the societies, which...
...fatal pessimism of the Nation. Behold the iconoclast which rudely defaces the temple and erects nowhere a chime for the devout...
...time-honored article on college "sponges," its good little article on "college reform," its examination schedules and society reports, and its terse little expository editorials with plenty of "we's" sprinkled in, and is altogether such a cheerful, busy, bustling, self-contented little sheet as is truly refreshing to behold. This is its best joke...
...behold that first rich gleam
...century. Is there a popular rising in Saxony, be sure a 'priest is at the' bottom of it. Is there a conspiracy among the Germanic princes, is there a commotion among the great feudatories of France, does a Norman invade Greece and seek to overthrow the Eastern Empire, behold everywhere the evidence of profound design...