Word: correct
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sensation of relief and anxiety. To be sure, I had looked over a large number of stuffs, gorgeous, "prononce," "tony," and commonplace, with fair success. I flattered myself that my selection - influenced, I will confess, by the judicious taste of the salesman - would be approved by my friends as correct and even "tough," though not too marked. But nevertheless, while colors, shades, mixed goods, plain goods, and Scotch goods were dismissed from mind, there still remained the question of the cut, which I had promised to settle at some future time. A man's clothes at Harvard are somewhat like...
...printed book of convenient size, lies before us. Notwithstanding the fact that in the preface the compiler modestly urges his own inexperience as an excuse for possible shortcomings, we must aver that the compilation is fully up to the standard of previous years. The information given appears to be correct, so far as a hasty examination permits us to judge. That a few typographical errors should exist is inevitable, humanly speaking. But the editing, on the whole, is careful and judicious, and we trust that we may have the pleasure of welcoming next year another Index from the same hands...
...gratifying to note that Professor Hill is delivering lectures in English literature. We hope these lectures may be largely attended, since it can hardly be said that Harvard men at present excel in this department. But it is at least as important to obtain correct ideas of our own writers as to be proficient in Terence or Aristophanes; and a chance is offered - particularly valuable to those who take no English courses - to learn a little something about our noble English literature. And once having heard Professor Hill speak upon subjects wherein he is so competent to pronounce opinions...
...would correct the statement in our Sporting Column of October 14, in regard to the 2-mile bicycle record. The telegram announcing Smith's performance was incorrect, as we discovered too late to prevent the error being printed. The best record at the event is still 6 min 27 sec., by W. S. Clark, New York Bicycle Club, at the American Institute Rink, New York...
...support, which is the willing and necessary accompaniment of a popular sport. The opponent of tennis further states that to those who do not play the game it seems to be the most utterly imbecile and childish of all out-door sports. This does not appear to us strictly correct. Lawn tennis poorly played may be uninteresting, but not childish; for even in the early stages of learning, when the art of the players is but little advanced, we who are not intimately acquainted with the game can nevertheless see how broad is the field for the acquirement of skill...