Word: downs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Is a broken-down health and a little-known name.
As we are so very like the Greeks, as, in short, we are elegant, cultivated, and handsome men, with a decided taste for beauty of form, - and for good form, too, - and as we live together in small and purely democratic communities, sufficiently like each other in tastes and interests...
After all, though, ostracism is not very practicable at present; and I have in mind a much less troublesome system of getting rid of disagreeable people, which I am not rich enough to put into practice. At the same time some of my readers may be able and willing to...
"While a torrent of abuse is poured out upon us by such degraded and disgraceful sheets as the Yale Record, whose only duty, it appears, is to scandalize and drag down the pure and good, how cheering it is to receive letters like that from which we make the following...
Another little matter may be of interest in this connection. A report has received wide circulation through College, and has found its way into some of the Boston papers, that the average mark required for securing a degree had been raised from fifty per cent to sixty per cent. I...