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Word: even (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Union Railway Company has restored the night car to Boston. It will leave Harvard Square on the even hours, and the fare on the 1, 2, 3, and 4 o'clock trips will be ten cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

...course, in studying books of our own or even of the Library, it does little harm, and sometimes much good, to call attention to the important passages by a pencil-mark. But in works of fiction many dash their pencils recklessly along a paragraph that strikes their fancy at the moment. This is almost always done when alone in a sort of friendly social feeling toward the next reader, and because there is no one present to share the reader's delight! Did you ever see a man mark a book? No, because if any one is present, the passage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARKING BOOKS. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

...remained till a week ago, when it was moved to Sanders Theatre. It hardly seems possible that so long a time was necessary for building so cheap and flimsy a pedestal, unless indeed the Corporation have been engaged in collecting the bricks in the streets, to economize the price even of this inexpensive material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...also goes over the matter of the withdrawal of the challenge and the reasons therefor, and repeats the charge of unfairness against Harvard, The following extract shows that even at Cornell there are, or at least were, two opinions about the matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...such a cynic or recluse when I entered college; on the contrary, I was full of love and sympathy for my fellow-man. It is only the constant persecution of my brother-students that has brought me so low. Why, I even envy President Eliot's immunity from contact with the students, and think Adam must have had a jolly time until Mrs. Adam (his Eve-il genius) put in an appearance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIBULATIONS. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

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