Word: curiously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unworthy spirit of which we speak and more cordiality and honesty, no doubt the exercises which are to take place to-day would be marked by greater enthusiasm and less insincerity. But we have indeed to be thankful that the average Harvard undergraduate has outlived the period when everything curious or unusual is worthy of attention simply because of its curiosity or novelty. A celebration is of interest to us, not from the fact that it is a celebration, but because it has a meaning deeper and more potent than any fact or expectation to be seen on the surface...
...every one knows, it is a great blessing to a college to have a freshmen foot-ball eleven, and it is an exceeding pleasure to see them wander round in their curious costumes looking like dainty demons; but did it ever occur to the members of the freshman eleven that they had any duties beyond those of looking handsome and keeping their uniforms clean? Did it ever occur to them that both the class and the college expect them to do some work in return for the fun they get from being on the team? The only reason for there...
...brilliancy. It is wonderful to see the minute differences, of seven seales more or less on the head, the number of vertebrae in the spinal column, the rake of a fin - which go to determine the difference between one specie and another. The fangs of snakes are also curious things, those of the water-moccasin being the largest and most deadly. They lie hid in two sacs in the roof of the mouth, and are hidden, when the snake is quiet, like a cat's claws. The snake has regular noxillaries like any other carnivore, though it does not masticate...
...feet" to incipient consumption. The faculty in its analogous position of liberal thought and conservative action, seems inclined to give these documents the best interpretation possible, and, in so far as they depend upon diplomatic wording, and harrowing statement, they are successful. As to the latter point, it seems curious that, while the faculty is callous to excuses of over study, they yield at once to the blandishments of cell-wall degeneration of the lung...
...rather a curious illustration of the barriers which conventional boundary lines may create, that Canada is represented in this college by only three students. The Pacific slope, which is ten times farther away, sends thirty students here; the city of San Francisco alone has twenty-two. And yet there is probably as large a well-to-do class in either Montreal or Quebec as there is in the American city. The great difficulty about attracting Canadian students to this country is, that a college is almost entirely deprived of the most effective means of overcoming international prejudice and conservatism - advertising...