Word: even
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...closing, Professor Shaler advised all college men to study the coast of Massachusetts from Cape Ann to Cape Cod, or even farther and he suggested that the Graduate Club should get out a little guide book of the places of interest and beauty which could be easily reached from Cambridge...
...Hotel Rambouillet with its assemblage of wits, afterwards so well painted by the pen of Moliere in his Precieuses Ridicules, which was called upon to render judgment upon the new play "Polyeuctes" by P. Corneille. Though even these dry, narrow critics were carried away by the power of the play, they felt that it would never do to encourage so original and imaginative an effort, and accordingly they condemned it because its author had had the audacity to introduce the Christian religion as an important factor in his work...
...thrown aside. Du Maurier defies in one half page all the rules of syntax and most of the rules of rhetoric. He does know of the periodic sentence. The book is not written, it is talked, and Mr. Henry James has said of it, that it is not even talked, it is smoked. Taffy, the Laird, and Little Billee are types, not individuals, but the close feeling of friendship, amounting almost to brotherhood, is masterfully drawn. The test of an imaginative work is the power it has of hypnotising its readers. Mr. Copeland felt that the first part...
...Freshman Debating Club evidently is not lacking in enterprise. The experiment which will be tried this evening of extemporaneous debate looks at first a little doubtful, but we nevertheless hope that it will prove a success. While it is true that it is a most valuable accomplishment to be able to speak offhand on any subject, it is equally true that the average youth finds it quite hard enough to say what he wants to even when he is primed with arguments...
...seriously interfere with the observation of faint objects, prove an advantage in one way. They render visible faint clouds, which are carefully looked for every few minutes when the meridian photometer is in use. As the lights are below the clouds instead of above them, the latter become conspicuous even when too faint to be seen in the moonlight...