Word: either
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...theatricals at Andover and Exeter on Friday the 17th, and Saturday the 18th instant, was such as to make these occasions memorable in the society's history; and if the enthusiasm of an audience means anything, the society will have a hearty welcome whenever it chooses to revisit either of these towns...
...probability, many victories for Harvard; although it is now reported that Yale has finally decided to win the college championship for 1874. If this is really the feeling of the College, what must be the disappointment to find that this year the men, while sweltering in the July heat, either at home or at the sea-shore, are doomed to enthusiasm over a mere "elegant" newspaper report of the contest between the College "boys," who occupy, in the depths of the reporter's mind, an indefinite position somewhere between a "mucker" and a Prussian count. Jarvis...
...After a goal is won ends shall be changed, and the losing side shall kick off. In the event, however, of no goal having fallen to either side at the lapse of half an hour, ends shall then be changed...
...outset embraced secondary instruction have accomplished nearly the half of their course. The second inconvenience of this system affects the teachers of primary schools, who, not having any distant perspective before them, or the hope of any advancement, lack that most powerful stimulant, personal ambition, and become either dull or discouraged...
...strongly recommended, or those whose ideas are most conformable to his own. These professors - modest men, a truly honorable body - thus find themselves, in some sort, public functionaries. In 1852, after the coup d'etat of December, they were required to swear allegiance to the Empire. Certain of them, either because they had already sworn allegiance to the Republic, or because their sense of justice and morality was shocked by an illegal act, refused to swear allegiance to a government sprung from a violation of law, and were removed from their positions without any regard to their past services...