Word: certained
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...cent, and the rents are all clear gain. Now, if I paid a private person $8 per week for a room in his house, I rather think that person would consent to keep the entry brilliantly illuminated without any demur. When the College lets me a room for a certain time for a fixed price, it stands in the same relation to me as a private individual, and should not be so unjust as to refuse fair demands which a private individual would gladly grant. Right and Justice may at last triumph, but until that day I shall feel myself...
...certain something other...
THIS is the Student's edition, corresponding to the "History of the Middle Ages," published in the same form. The whole work is compressed into one by no means unwieldy volume, of very clear type, the only omissions being certain parts of the less important remarks, and most of the notes printed at the foot of the pages. Altogether it will be found to be a very convenient edition, and hardly inferior, in point of matter, to the larger...
...CERTAIN professor, whose chin was wont to be graced by a flowing beard, has lately returned shorn of every vestige of his hirsute appendage. A Soph., meeting the aforesaid Prof., after a prolonged stare, and with a knowing wink to his Senior companion, burst out with "By Jove, that's the hardest-looking Freshman I've seen...
...writer takes of culture. Were it not that culture is becoming really the ideal for which to work, this would matter little; but as it is, we must try to keep the ideal as high as possible, and this will not be done by describing culture as reading a certain amount and learning to write fairly. True culture is nothing less than the development of every part of our nature, and in leading the intellectual life our studies may be made of as much benefit as reading, provided only that we look at them, not by themselves, but only...