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Word: considerable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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A FAIR presumption seems to exist that one will find in a college man a firm opponent of cant; if, at least, we mean by that term "the repetition of a creed after it has become a phrase by the cooling of that white-hot conviction which once made it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANT. | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

TWO hundred and forty years have passed since a "school or college" was founded by the "General Court" on the then verdant banks of Charles River. In those good old days Gown reigned supreme; the boating-men could have rowed a race from Watertown to the spot afterwards to be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOWN vs. TOWN. | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

THE ready adoption of a suggestion in the last Magenta relating to the formation of a Chess Club, and the prompt calling of a meeting to start such a society, give us reason to believe that there exists at Harvard a number of men skilled in chess, and willing to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

WE should be very glad, at the end of this month and a half of the trial of voluntary recitations, to lay before our readers some report relative to the success or failure of the plan. This, unfortunately, is impossible, as several of the instructors have not yet returned their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

This brings us to the question of success. If what has been already said be true, if the noblest part of man's nature makes him long for what can never be attained in this life, if the desire for this and struggle after this are more to be coveted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAILURE. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

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