Word: enough
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...little importance in the history of speech. Its study is, so to speak, the A B C of the philologist. It offers a criterion, a test, for other and more difficult studies, and is a living type on which we may build our theories. Its application is practical enough. The habit of comparison and inquiry which it forms finds daily exercise, and cannot be too highly cultivated; and in our age, when a man of culture cannot exist without the knowledge of at least two languages besides his own, the theory of language is, or should be, of some importance...
...objection to this plan is the apparent injustice to any Juniors and Sophomores who may elect Senior studies. Will not the absence of Seniors throw the work on the other classmen, and if a Junior or Sophomore has brains enough to carry a Senior elective, ought he not to have any privileges granted the men for whom the course was established...
Although these reforms are only experiments as yet, their advantages seem great enough, with certain modifications, to warrant their continuance, and to give strong argument in favor of the assertion, "experiments never go backward...
...were disappointed in the "Beautiful Slave," which the College Herald parades at the head of its "Literary" department. Its badness is hardly even enough to make it pleasant reading; yet there are a few passages for which striking is perhaps the best term. For instance, the extraordinary manifestation of second-sight in the first stanza...
...that you have some knowledge of the system, it would not perhaps be foreign to our purpose to say a few words about its results. It is not enough to comprehend the mechanism and organization; one must also be able to judge of the work. Having described the tree, we must also look at its fruits...