Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that there must be an easier and equally sure way of gaining a prize. I think, in fact I feel sure, that I have discovered such a way; and, since I wish to advance the cause of literature at Harvard, I am willing to make it known. It cannot fail to give satisfaction, for it is the result of a careful psychological study of the involuntary workings of an examiner's mind, and brings into due prominence certain details usually neglected but in reality all-important...
...light cannot fade away...
ATHLETICS.That track on Jarvis or Holmes seems to be a thing of the less vivid future. If the H. A. A. cannot secure Jarvis, let them take Holmes, and have the fifth of a mile track laid out immediately, so that men can begin to train at once. It should be kept in mind that prizes equal in value and beauty to those given last year will be offered this, and will be worth any man's training for. We trust that this year's Freshman class will not be as distrustful of their powers in the athletic line...
...some extent this curse contains the seeds of its own destruction, for prosy talkers soon become known, and are anxiously avoided as a pest. But they cannot always be evaded, for prosiness is not wholly confined to talkers, although with them it is most common. But in books, and in our lecture and recitation rooms, it is but too often met with; and the student, bending over a text-book or within the sound of the voice of a teacher, finds his thoughts distracted and wandering away from the subject, which should absorb his whole attention. Instead of brief, simple...
...have the fortune, or rather misfortune, to be at a table each side of which is presided over by a different deity of the dining-hall. I sat meekly down, and looked around for my Henry; but my Henry was nowhere to be seen. A hungry man cannot wait. I was becoming anxious, when suddenly my Henry came rushing from behind the screen...