Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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LAST Wednesday morning my old door-mat disappeared. The goody's one eye twinkled with malicious delight as she informed me of my loss. She added, by way of consolation, "Bad 'cess to it! 'T was always a thrippin' me up." And I have no doubt the majority of the entry would have indorsed her sentiments, if not her brogue; for the mat, although by no means a complete hole, was yet very perfect in its way, and had acquired many of the properties that are supposed to be peculiar to traps. One rent in particular seemed...
DEAR JACK, - If you have ever amused yourself by comparing your own countrymen with the rest of the world, you will no doubt have found that the American is the most one-sided being on earth. If he is a man of business, he is a man of business and nothing more; his whole time, as well as his whole mind, is filled with his means of livelihood, and he cannot spare a moment for anything not connected with money-making. If he is a man of leisure, and, as rarely happens, has nothing to do, he consistently does, thinks...
...have no doubt perceived, I am in a very prosy vein to-day, and I shall cut my letter short, for fear that you will apply to it my remarks about the bore of reading. My advice to you is simply to play the part of a social chameleon. Adapt yourself to the company that you are in. If you can talk their shop-talk, talk it with them. If you cannot talk it, listen to them. But never assert yourself in opposition without real reason. Keep your ears open. Remember as much that you hear as possible...
...College Notes," and so forth, most of which are either strictly personal or else entirely false. If we might make a suggestion to such exalted directors of public opinion, we would request them to confine their items to occurrences at the police-stations and court-rooms, in which, no doubt, their readers are more interested than in the doings of "college boys...
...making the six-oared crews inferior to the four-oared was bad for the rowing interest of the college. The action of the American and New England Associations affects in the same way the rowing interests of the country. The circumstances of the smaller colleges no doubt made the change necessary, as the weak state of our clubs made it necessary with us. We earnestly hope, however, that the change here is only temporary, and that in the spring the former state of affairs will be restored. There is no good reason for the inability of our clubs to turn...