Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...made; in reviving it, however, Clough succeeded in correcting many inaccuracies and mistranslations without marring its inimitable style. At the time of its first appearance the revision was highly praised, and the work may be said to have altogether superseded the inferior translation of the one then in common use, Langhorne's. Its republication, in a more convenient and less costly form, will be of peculiar interest to those of us who are familiar with the advanced art electives, since Plutarch is so frequently referred to that it may almost be called the text-book of those courses; it will...
Again there are some offices (such as poet and chorister, for instance), for which there is often no competition, common consent indicating who shall be the incumbent. In such cases as the two just mentioned, the section that these offices naturally fall to should consider such offices as a constituent part of their representation...
...difficult to select men better qualified to explain their separate subjects than those mentioned above, and one has only to go once and he will continue to go, if he has any real love for literature. If not, perhaps it were better he were not here. It is a common plea that it is impossible to spend so much time and do justice to other subjects; but this is a very feeble excuse; for if one were only to take account of the time he wastes each day, it would be found to be many times more than...
...most serious obstacle in the graduate's path is the too common feeling that he has nothing more to learn. But this is a feeling by no means universal, and it is also one soon got rid of. If a college graduate enters a newspaper office with the idea in his head that he knows all about the business, he subjects himself to the same rebuffs as would meet him if he entered a dry-goods house with a like notion. But if he is willing to learn with patience the technicalities, and is willing to submit to those more...
...stupid rule now enforced, no man can occupy his or any other room during the summer unless he has re-engaged his last year's room. There is no reason why common-sense should not be just as necessary in the Bursar's office as elsewhere...