Word: calls
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...exercise as a strong, healthy man requires. Any form of outdoor exercise can be taken easily; rowing itself, if one rows slowly enough, is anything but hard work; but just as a severe pull on the river is violent exercise, so is a good game of lawn-tennis. To call a game effeminate because it can be played without much exertion is a mode of reasoning which can as well be applied to rowing or base-ball as to lawn-tennis...
...have often been struck with the College motto, and Dr. Holmes has so nobly expressed my views on the subject, that I venture to call attention to his sonnets and the comments thereon, which, probably, many persons have not seen...
...Marking System" is what the best authorities have been pleased to call the method of marking now existing at Harvard; but even to the recently initiated this word "system" must seem a keen bit of sarcasm. The great errors and injuries of the present system are so well known that any consideration of them on our part is unnecessary. We trust, however, that we shall not seem too presumptuous if we venture to suggest a remedy. It certainly requires no great ability to compare the results of established systems with the evils of the vacillating method in use here...
...night on Arabella a young man had come to call...
...should like to call attention to the course of lectures to be given by the Rev. A. C. A. Hall on the History of the Early Christian Church. The subject is one of great interest, and deals with facts that every one, whatever his belief may be, should be acquainted with. Father Hall is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, and a member of the society of St. John the Evangelist. He has made a special study of Church History, and cannot fail to treat his subject in an interesting and masterly...