Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...CANNOT the paths in the Yard be more effectually cleared of snow...
...recitation-rooms of University know no occupants but the ghosts of the dead. And what of those who reared the beast that shall have undone us? Will the analogy be completed? I see - But no! here the curtain must be drawn; there are scenes which even the undergraduate cannot look upon unmoved...
...refuse to enter into the controversy about the foot-ball match with Yale, it is simply because it would be a waste of time and space. Our readers understand clearly enough that questions as to courtesy and gentlemanlike treatment cannot be settled by any amount of writing. They understand, also, only too well the reception which our Nines and Teams generally receive at New Haven. Yale undergraduates seem to lack the faintest idea of what hospitality is, and we have no desire to undertake the hopeless task of teaching them...
...letter we print from an old oarsman should receive much attention from our boating men We cannot agree with our correspondent in everything he says, but the crew will find many valuable hints in the letter. His remarks on rowing-weights, we must say, with all due respect, are out of date. The rowing-weight used in his time was very different from the one in use now. A thousand strokes a day at the hydraulic machines used by our crew necessarily brings out the pluck and endurance of the candidates for the boat. Pulling at an iron weight attached...
That afternoon I divided between Kant and Hegel. I cannot say that I enjoyed or even understood a word I read, but I felt that I was doing my duty, and so was happy. When evening came I was too tired to continue my reading, and, being afraid some friend would happen around and suggest a game of billiards or cards, I hurried away to make a call in town, thinking that I might be aided in my reform by the elevating influence of society. The conductor on the car passed me by in collecting the fares. Usually I could...