Word: casefully
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Thursday, and Friday, on Contracts, by Professor J. B. Ames. Afternoon Lectures begin at three. The lecture Monday afternoon is on Crime and Procedure, by Professor Washburn; Tuesday, on Torts, by Professor Lathrop; and Friday, on Civil Procedure (either an explanatory lecture from "Stephen, On Pleading," or a practical case in pleading...
...present time. Our numerous predecessors aspired to long and highly literary articles, and failed; their wrecks, scattered along the course of college journalism here, serve to warn college papers of the present day not to follow their course, if they would prosper. That this ought not to be the case is clear from one point of view. A college paper ought to present to the world a specimen of the best intellectual productions of the undergraduates. But the best men in college will not write; and if they did, we are confident such long literary articles would not be read...
...among our fashionable resorts, loafing, and playing the gallant to the same ever-present fair ones that throng our assembly-rooms and concert halls in the winter, becomes, through long nursing of his ennui, even less inclined for positive brain-work than before; and if, as is usually the case, his laziness has extended to bodily exercises, he returns to college but little improved in health...
...Faculty would reconsider the case and remove this burden from our minds, they would render the thanksgivings of many much more hearty and sincere than they otherwise would...
...wherein he has endeavored to convey his ideas by metaphors, without feeling the force of Voltaire's complaint "En l'ecrivant meme l'idee m'echappe." And if this is true of prose writing, where words are not restricted, how much more must just be the complaint in the case of poetry, where, in the choice of words, sense and jingle seem ever to be having a Kilkenny cat-fight in the brain of the unfortunate devotee of the "Art of Poetry." And yet poets do unmistakably attain a skill in reconciling thought and metre which is perfectly marvellous...