Word: correct
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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PRETTY STRONG.We desire to express our entire concurrence with our E. C. the Spectator in regard to the arrangements for a four-mile race. Were our oarsmen prize fighters and professional athletes four miles would be the correct distance for the race; but as they are not, we consider that distance brutal, and advocate most sincerely the adoption of a three-mile race. - [Acta...
...never graduated at an American university, we are at a loss to understand where he acquired such brutal practises, but he ought to be hung all the same. The name of the tribe to which the suspended Harvard students belong is not given. - [Texas Siftings.] This item is hardly correct. They were Trinity students. But Siftings can keep the item in type. It's likely to be needed at almost any time. - [Post...
...ears? I hesitate - perhaps there is slight ground for such rude talk - but our trans-Atlantic cousin has blundered elsewhere. May we ask of him, with all deference, in the future to leave American books alone, or to examine their contents more carefully. Who knows but that he might correct certain errors and find more edification and less amusement. Still the conviction remains, as the young lady remarked to the whist-playing parson: "I fear, sir, you have missed your vocation...
...correct a misstatement in yesterday's HERALD we would state that Mr. Sargent will remain here as instructor in elocution through the present academic year. His connection with the Madison Square Theatre begins Sept...
What a number of very young men, in very correct costumes, one sees, who wear a studied look of painful indifference...