Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...David T. Dickinson '88, by a majority of about eight hundred votes. The city voted no-license for the fourteenth successive year by a majority of one thousand. W. H. Lewis L. '95, Thorndike Spalding '95, J. D. Merrill '89, and Stoughton Bell '96, were elected members of the Common Council...
...good and clever. But it has the tone of the over-done, and throughout it there is constant striving for effect. "The Point of View," by J. G. Cole sC., is a pleasant sketch of a not very ingenious sort. The plot is conventional and the characters are common place. The writer shows an extensive acquaintance with Boston "taverns," and some slight knowledge of girls. In "The Tin Goddess," L. D. Humphrey '01 contributes a story of the expanded daily theme type. "A Serious Question" is a choice bit of realistic description, greatly marred by an anti-climax...
...their sense of honor that so few of them have yielded. It was hoped that the large number of seats constructed around the field would effectually check speculation, and to that end the management deliberately put money into seats it did not expect to sell. Under the circumstances, the common delusion that any undergraduate has been entirely crowded out seems surprising. He has not had adequate opportunity to get good seats, but he can nevertheless see the game...
...second of the hare and hound runs was held yesterday afternoon. The course was up Garden street to Fresh Pond, around the pond, down Brattle street to Mason street and from there across the Common to the Gymnasium. About forty men came out. There were no hares and there was no break at the finish. The pace was faster than that of last week, and the distance covered about five miles. The next run will be held on Wednesday...
...another had the same face, voice and inward sentiment as the one "perfect Woman," would he love both? If he did, he would have neither true love nor true loyalty, which, if he possessed, would hold him faithful to his one ideal. We may hold an idea in common with another being and we are linked to that being. God is linked to finite beings are seeking him and are striving to reach Truth...