Word: enough
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Perhaps not," he replied; "but you Harvard Juniors ought to know Greek enough to see the derivation at once...
...letter in the last Advocate on the proposed reduction of the marks obtained at the Anticipatory Examination in Rhetoric did not seem to me to express strongly enough the feeling in regard to this matter...
...want of a sufficient endowment has kept Andover from responding quickly to the demands upon preparatory schools made by increasing the standard for admission at this and other colleges. It is proposed to raise at the celebration an endowment large enough to put Andover on a level with the best-equipped schools in the country; and if the attempt should succeed, as succeed it will, Harvard must gain by the increased number of students that will be prepared to enter here...
...very well, and there is no possible objection to the Courant's complimenting the Yale Lit., only it is carrying the matter a step too far, to quote a stanza of a translation from Alfred de Musset, and criticise it (favorably) as original. Though translations are easy enough to write, we had noticed this in the Lit. as particularly good, and do not doubt that those who read it in the Courant, without knowing it to be merely a reproduction, will think it more remarkable than we did. The Courant speaks of another poem in the Lit. ("A Counterfeit Presentment...
There is certainly more interest and enthusiasm shown in athletic sports now than there has been for some time past, and it depends only on ourselves whether or not we shall increase or decrease that interest by the number of men who enter the sports. There are men enough at Harvard who can run and walk and jump; we have plenty of good material; all that is now wanted is a little more energy on the part of athletic men, and a willingness to sacrifice their personal comfort for a time to their physical and even mental good...