Word: enough
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Thus far we have been concerned with the exaggerated and atrabiliar statements of the writer. His co-ordination of the facts with the phenomena that had been the subject of this discussion is hardly ambitious enough to merit the name of reasoning. A fondness for the universal affirmative or negative is not to be cultivated in writings of a controversial nature. Having published with boldness "that culture is only the perfect blossom of moral character," singularly enough a few lines later he tells us "that it is, in short, only the result of long study, rich experience," and moral character...
...would afford excellent materials for experiments; the researches might be conducted in one of the unused rooms at Gore Hall, while the cellars of Harvard offer unusual facilities for the construction of large and convenient catacombs. At the end of five years results ought to have been obtained definite enough to warrant the inauguration of the plan...
...clubs will have boats for their crews to-morrow. When the present system was founded, in order to insure him what the originators of the plan considered a fair profit, he was guaranteed two hundred members, each paying $15 a year, in return for which he has provided boats enough to allow one third of the members to row at the same time. As there is an impression that he is in some way making an inordinate profit on these boats, we have collected a few figures to show the present condition of his investment. The number of paying members...
...Sunday Herald of recent date. Its stand on the currency question is certainly of the soundest, and in general its editorial department will compare favorably with any Boston paper. But I need enter into no elaborate defence of the Herald; the size of its circulation is eloquent enough, and I fear I have already trespassed upon the courtesy of your paper...
...were fortunate enough to gain the toss, and the first half-hour was hotly contested, Harvard keeping the ball down by the Tufts goal, except when interrupted by the brilliant rushes of Harrington and Dwinell. The first half-hour was finished without a touch-down on either side...