Word: enough
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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DEAR SUE: The ordinary course of college life is tame enough, but occasionally something occurs to break the monotony. The other night loud screams were heard issuing from the west entry of Holworthy. Of course we turned out en masse to see what the matter was. It appeared, on investigation, that one of the girls in that entry had been frightened out of her wits at seeing the ghost of an old professor who used to occupy her room twenty or thirty years ago. According to her story, he scowled at her fearfully, and gruffly bade her vacate immediately...
...average student had sufficient general knowledge of grammatical principles, after four or five years of careful preparation, to dispense with comments and questions on the syntax of ordinary sentences; and was able, if not invariably to have every grammatical term at his tongue's end, at least to have enough familiarity with the fundamental principles of the language in question to apprehend the meaning of a sentence, without dissecting it with the critical care of an anatomist...
...such men are few. Most of us are not particularly earnest, even in the pursuit of pleasure. By the aid of an "advanced civilization," the "culture of the nineteenth century," etc., we have, curiously enough, just reached that position of dignified indifference which the American Indian long ago attained without any such aids...
Without any questions from me he began telling story after story, holding me spell-bound, as the Ancient Mariner held the wedding-guest "with his glittering eye." In fact, this eye is all I can distinctly remember about him, for his body seemed ghost-like and unreal enough. It was like the eye of any old man, weak and watery, while he described my Hollis room as he knew it once with its sanded floor and two wooden chairs; or while he pictured the Yard with its five buildings, deserted but for an occasional boy in a long, bag-tailed...
...thirty-five members have handed in their names as candidates for the Nine, and many of them have already begun to work steadily in the Gymnasium. Since the recent election of officers active measures have been taken to bring about matches with the Freshman Nines of all colleges near enough to make it practicable...