Word: curiously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...others, have their squabbling age, an age of hair-pulling and scratching, an age of petty jealousies, rivalries and quarrels. If any man doubts that, let him come here and read the story of Harvard's childhood. It took two hundred years to outgrow it. It makes a curious record, this story of the Puritan popes who wanted to be president, or wanted a professorship for self or son, or wanted a certain policy pursued, a course of study introduced, or a certain theology adopted. Affairs now move with an amazing absence of friction. Personal relations are charmingly free from...
...ball fields there are a couple of curious old sign-boards which freshmen are won't to look upon with awe, but still with a certain satisfaction. They refer to ball-playing and some of the other accomplishments of the American youth as practised by those who are not members of Harvard University. If we remember rightly, these same boards contain upon them words of terrible meaning-something about "prosecution to the full extent of the law." For the benefit of those who have been astonished at the audacity of such extreme measures, we would say that long years...
...desirable that young men should aspire to be 'record breakers' in particular sports. It seems to us better that they should be moderately good in all; but we recognize while human nature is what it is, that many will aspire to special excellence. It would be a curious problem in experimental mechanics to decide just how a man should be built to use his strength to the greatest advantage. Dr. Sargent raises the question, but leaves the answer to time and statistics. There is one very important aspect of the subject that we are glad is not overlooked...
This rather curious fact can easily be explained. Since the special students enjoy advantages as members of the University in regular standing, the older men prefer to enter as specials. There was a remarkable regularity in the ages of those entering this year, the average being about...
Haggard's best novel has had a curious experience in an English public library. "King Solomon's Mines" is placed among the works on mineralogy...